Michael Behringer - Clavier Book for Anna Magdalena Bach 1725 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Dale Kavanagh - Guitar Concertos [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/09/2010

The special attraction of the early Baroque Spanish music lies in it's blending of Art music and Folk music. The rhythms, the colors, the instruments and melodies have often points to direct Popular Roots. The Ensemble Private Musicke and singer Monika Mauch and Josep Cabré have put together some nice examples. The sequence of songs and dances of the CD gives an irresistible Spanish flair.

Playing the piano was for Aaron Copland one of the necessities of life, like eating or breathing. Wherever he was there was always a piano somewhere near. Even during conversations and interviews, so it is said, his fingers used to move involuntarily on the table-top like on an imaginary keyboard. And it is in piano works that Copland's compositional development found it's culmination again and again. The InchPassacagliaInch is his very first large-scale work, and the 5InchPiano FantasyInch can be regarded as his most ambitious, most extensive composition in the field of absolute music, a work in which he sums up and concentrates many characteristics of his musical style in a late work.American musician Nina Tichman has been particularly interested in contemporary compositions and their roots in traditional music for the piano. The music of Schönberg and Debussy, whose complete piano works she has presented cyclically (also released on the WERGO tag), as well as that of contemporary American composers such as Copland and Elliott Carter, plays a central role in her repertoire.