Violin Concertos
 The Two Luscious Khachaturian Violin Concerti: What? Two Khachaturian concerti? Didn't he just write one, the big one in D Minor, the one recorded so beautifully by Oistrakh (its dedicatee) and Kogan? Well, yes. But he also wrote a one-movement folk- [... more]
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Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7
Entertaining Russian romanticism: Glazunov's eight symphonies (there is one movement from a projected 9th symphony) are somewhat of a mixed bag. They sound like a cross of the Russian romanticism of Rimsky-Korsakov with the emotionalism of Tchaikovsky. [... more]
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Ideas and Opinions
Penetrates to the heart and soul of an amazing intellect: "Ideas and Opinions" reveals much about the thought processes, culture, and observations that shaped the character of Albert Einstein. In a remarkable series of insightful short prose [... more]
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Virgin suicides (Version française)
Eugenides is tops: Let's start out by saying that above all things, this novel by Jeffrey Eugenides is macabre, to the inth degree. But, it's also fascinating and totally bizarre--just one of the reasons you should take it on. The story starts out with a [... more]
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Str Qrt/Pno Qnt
From Amazon.com: Elgar's large-scale rhetorical works are now familiar to most, but his chamber music deserves to be better known. These expansive three-movement pieces are late works, elegiac and deeply personal. The Quartet centers on a tenderly [... more]
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Hip to Knit: 18 Contemporary Projects for Today's Knitter
Great beginner projects: Easy projects but not all boring. You know the new knitters curse: row after row after row of stockinette stitch. You can find it, but there are a variety of items, and stitches to try; all clearly explained via drawings and [... more]
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Rite Of Spring
From Amazon.com: These two ballets represent the opposite extremes of Stravinsky's creative personality. On the one hand, there's The Rite of Spring, the ultimate expression of musical primitivism (so much so that it served as "dinosaur" music [... more]
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Magnificat/Easter Oratorio
Amazon.com essential recording: Bach's celebration of Easter is a mostly joyous one, opening with a three-movement sinfonia, richly orchestrated, and complete with trumpets and drums: the third movement includes the chorus inviting listeners to rejoice [... more]
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Love Over Gold
Chronique amazon.fr: Cette production dominée par Mark Knopfler (mais quel disque de Dire Straits ne l'est pas…) contient les parties de guitare accrocheuses et les paroles intelligentes auxquelles le groupe nous a habitué avec le temps. Le [... more]
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Pno Music Of John Adams/Terry
Excellent performance of interesting pieces: The Riley compositions will be a bit of a revelation to those who know him primarily from his "In C" and "Rainbows in Curved Air" days. His work here is much more nuanced, and frankly, [... more]
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Organ Works Vol. 4
Organ Pyromania: The Three Preludes and Fugues, in their time, were like no work ever written before. Composed as an entry in the prestigious Prix de Rome competition, they display astounding virtuosity, both in composition and in the performer. The B [... more]
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Pno Trios
From Amazon.co.uk: Although these musicians have previously played together in duos, you are not likely to hear the trio of Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, and Mischa Maisky every day. The friends have attempted to perform as a threesome for decades, but [... more]
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