Star pianist quits competition jury over ‘dishonesty and fraud’
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Claudio Abbado (1933 – 2014)
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Martha Argerich and friends: Live from Lugano 2010
At last I’ve worked my way through this 3CD set. Here are a couple of short reviews – The Financial Times – The Observer and a more in depth one by Oleg Ledeniov. Alfred SCHNITTKEBéla BARTÓKClassical musicEnrique GRANADOSErich KORNGOLDFranz LISZTFrédéric CHOPINIgor STRAVINSKYJohannes BRAHMSMartha ArgerichmusicPercy GRAINGERRobert SCHUMANN
Martha Argerich & Charles Dutoit
A great team reunited: if Martha doesn’t cancel . . . Charles DutoitClassical musicMartha ArgerichWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Is Jazz Dead?
Here is a critical review of a book that I haven’t yet read. The review rightly touches on several meta-issues in Jazz but whatever insights Duncan Heining’s review offers and whatever perhaps legitimate criticisms he levels against the target author, Heining’s political sociology itself comes over as a sophomorish off-the-peg conceptual apparatus so characteristic of circles…
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