Recordings HOW TO LISTEN THE WORLD OF CLASSICAL RECORDS IT TAKES no great perspicacity to observe that a high percentage of new classical albums preserve performances of familiar pieces that...
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Unsuspected Eloquence: a History of the Relations between Poetry AND MUSIC, by James Anderson Winn, Yale University Press, $18.95, 381 pp. James Winn, a Yale English professor and a flutist of...
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Recordings THE HORN OF PUNTO FROM SERF TO VIRTUOSO SOLOIST GIOVANNI PUNTO. It was the name, though not the given one, of the greatest horn player of his time, Jan Vaclav (or Johann Wenzel) Stich...
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A TELENANN PASSION WORLDLY YET COMPELLING WE HAVE strange misconceptions about the musical Baroque. Ask someone to name a piece by Bach, and the likely answer will be one of the six Brandenburg...
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Recordings LISTENING & DANCING RECREATING RENAISSANCE MUSIC I arrived HOME exhausted, in want of some light yet invigorating entertainment. Renaissance dance music seemed just the thing. And so I...
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Recordings SHUMSKY IN HIS PRIME A NATURALNESS & INNATE RIGHTNESS AMONG the greatest pleasures afforded the inveterate record buyer and concertgoer is the discovery of extraordinary artists...
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