some very good music      Some very good music      Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy - Valery Gergiev / Kirov ... Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, ... Philips, 2001 The Pinnacle + A wild ride, and a sonic spectacular This is it -- if you are looking for a "perfect" 'The Rite of Spring', you owe it to yourself to buy this cd -- especially if you have a reference audio system. It will blow your socks off. Deserves a "10" star rating.             1961 Jimmy Giuffre 3 Ecm Records, 2001 Delicate filigree creations - sublime & awesome + Me, too!!! + Thanks, Mr. Giuffre! + The Singular Music of the Giuffre Trio + the most interesting free music of its time!             Ives: Three Places in New England, Ruggles: Sun Treader, etc. Charles Ives, Walter Piston, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2001 Quintessential Ives, Ruggles, Piston, and MTT + win some, lose some I must confess a bit of biographical prejudice in reviewing this disc. It was the original DG LP incarnation of the Ives included here--"Three Places..."--and its Ruggles discmate "Sun Treader" that opened my eyes to both composers back in high school. That worn library copy, with its glorious DG ...             Martinu: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 Bohuslav Martinu, Karel Kosárek Naxos, 2007 First Recordings of Two of Martinu's Chamber Works As far as I know these are the first recordings -- or at least the first modern recordings -- of the First Piano Quintet (1933) and the Sonata for Two Violins and Piano (1932). Martinu, of course, wrote lots of chamber music and it is not surprising that not all of it is familiar; I've never heard ...             Nancarrow: Pieces Nos. 1 & 2; ¿Tango?; String Quartet No. 1 Celeste Marie Roy, David Krakauer, ... Naxos American, 2005 Nancarrow without the player piano: an essential addition to our knowledge of the composer + A good budget introduction to Nancarrow's "live" music This is the reissue of a recording made in 1989 and first released in 1991 by Musicmasters. See my lengthy review under the original release (Continuum Performs Nancarrow). It is an essential addition to our knowledge and understanding of Nancarrow, as it documents most of the (very few) pieces he ...             John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano by John Tilbury John Cage, JohnTilbury Explore Records, 2006             Paul Moravec: Tempest Fantasy; Mood Swings; B.A.S.S. Variations; Scherzo Alexis Pia Gerlach, David Krakauer, ... Naxos American, 2007 No flavor of the month, just great music I probably wouldn't have purchased this cd if I hadn't read Terry Teachout's arts blog, on which he recommends it highly. (He also wrote the liner notes for it; they're mostly informative and insightful, although I was annoyed by his efforts to remind us (a) that he himself was one of the few who ...             Early Works Steve Reich, Double Edge Nonesuch, 1992 Timeless Minimalism!! + Kumma kumma, shoda shoda + Reich's extreme early experiments + It's Gonna Rain + Reich's solid minimalist beginnings             Elliott Carter: Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord; Sonata for Cello & Piano; Double Concerto for ... Fred Sherry, Joel Krosnick, ... Nonesuch, 1992 An outstanding introduction to a contemporary music giant + 3 Carter masterpieces + A good place to start with Carter This disc collects three classic performances of major works from Elliott Carter's early maturity. The two sonatas date from the end of Carter's period of neo-classical writing, at a point where his music had started to achieve its trademark rhythmic complexity, though the harmonic and melodic ...             Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Alexander Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy - Valery Gergiev / Kirov ... Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky, ... Philips, 2001 The Pinnacle + A wild ride, and a sonic spectacular This is it -- if you are looking for a "perfect" 'The Rite of Spring', you owe it to yourself to buy this cd -- especially if you have a reference audio system. It will blow your socks off. Deserves a "10" star rating.             Early Works Steve Reich, Double Edge Nonesuch, 1992 Timeless Minimalism!! + Kumma kumma, shoda shoda + Reich's extreme early experiments + It's Gonna Rain + Reich's solid minimalist beginnings             Martinu: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 Bohuslav Martinu, Karel Kosárek Naxos, 2007 First Recordings of Two of Martinu's Chamber Works As far as I know these are the first recordings -- or at least the first modern recordings -- of the First Piano Quintet (1933) and the Sonata for Two Violins and Piano (1932). Martinu, of course, wrote lots of chamber music and it is not surprising that not all of it is familiar; I've never heard ...             John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano by John Tilbury John Cage, JohnTilbury Explore Records, 2006             Elliott Carter: Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello & Harpsichord; Sonata for Cello & Piano; Double Concerto for ... Fred Sherry, Joel Krosnick, ... Nonesuch, 1992 An outstanding introduction to a contemporary music giant + 3 Carter masterpieces + A good place to start with Carter This disc collects three classic performances of major works from Elliott Carter's early maturity. The two sonatas date from the end of Carter's period of neo-classical writing, at a point where his music had started to achieve its trademark rhythmic complexity, though the harmonic and melodic ...             Ives: Three Places in New England, Ruggles: Sun Treader, etc. Charles Ives, Walter Piston, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2001 Quintessential Ives, Ruggles, Piston, and MTT + win some, lose some I must confess a bit of biographical prejudice in reviewing this disc. It was the original DG LP incarnation of the Ives included here--"Three Places..."--and its Ruggles discmate "Sun Treader" that opened my eyes to both composers back in high school. That worn library copy, with its glorious DG ...          products you might be interested in        toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Te amo... para siempre? Como lograr, mantener o rescatar el amor