Brinkmann Balance
I first heard the Brinkmann Balance (BB) with Jan Allaerts Boron mk2 and the FM Acoustics electronics with the big Zellaton and the Stenheim Alumine…
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Blog 17. Stravinsky The Russian Ballets Part II – Petrushka, Rite of Spring and Pulcinella
Continued from Blog 16. Petrushka A year after his great success with Firebird, Stravinsky wrote a piece intended for concert performance. Stravinsky said later that…
Blog 16. Stravinsky The Russian Ballets Part I – Ballets Russes and Firebird
Stravinsky was a late bloomer. His parents tolerated his interest in music, but wanted him to go to law school, which he did. His father…
Blog 15. Tchaikovsky Ballets II – Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker
The second of Tchaikovsky’s three great ballets is Sleeping Beauty. Like the other two, it was choreographed by Marius Petipa of the Imperial Ballet, later…
Blog 14. Tchaikovsky – Ballets I – Swan Lake
The next two blogs are about Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and his three most famous ballets, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and the Nutcracker. This blog will…
Blog 13. TAS Super Discs – Film Music by Miklos Rozsa
Harry Pearson, better known as HP, founded The Absolute Sound (TAS) in the early 1970’s. By the fourth issue he had already started to change…
Blog 11. Beethoven’s Concerti Part II – Beethoven Piano Concertos 4 and 5
The last two of Beethoven’s piano concerti are universally considered among the very finest piano concerti ever written, with many removing the “among” from the…
Blog 10. Beethoven’s Concerti I – The Violin Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven spent most of his most productive compositional life battling a slow losing battle with deafness. He was an iconoclast of the first…
Blog 9. Brahms Concerti II – The Two Piano Concerti
Brahms was a fine pianist, and his piano compositions are among the finest in the literature. His two piano concerti are among the most popular…
Blog 7. Do French Composers write the best Spanish Music?
First, what is Spanish (or German, or Italian, or American, etc) classical music. Before sometime in the 19th Century, it was quite difficult to associate…