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Sony BMG Masterworks Blog
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The Official Blog of the Classical, Broadway and Film Score division of Sony BMG.
- Added on: Jul 27th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Sony BMG Masterworks Blog
- Listed in: Classical Music
- Tags: reviews jazz classical music broadway sony bmg film score
Recent Posts
Anniversary Fever
The erudite and comprehensive liner notes for the Masterworks Broadway 50th Anniversary Edition of The Sound of Music open with the arresting quote: “Audrey Hepburn as Maria von Trapp?” Hooked me, that’s for sure. The notes detail how the com...
Nine is Quite Literally in Vogue
Maury Yeston is a real composer, equally invested in writing for the Broadway Stage and his own version of the concert hall, as anyone who has ever heard his complex, haunting song cycle December Songs can attest. He wrote the musicals Titanic (noth...
Daniel Taylor, Absolutely Brilliant
t is raining. It is cold. I am woefully behind on everything I have to do because the cleaning of the office slotted to take just under three hours (in my febrile mind) took most of the weekend (though honestly, you should see it in here…). I’...
More on Beethoven (with Help from Murray Perahia)
So I’ve been really obsessed with listening to Rudolf Serkin’s Essential (like I said blogs ago, I never really went in for best-of’s, being something of a snob, but now I’m convinced they are not only useful and instructive but actually...
Serkin in the “Moonlight”
Is it me, or does Rudolf Serkin’s recording of the first movement of the Opus 27 “Moonlight Sonata” (which I’ve got on The Essential Rudolf Serkin) really really slow down to the end, like a watch winding down, in a way out Mahler-ing Mahler?...
You Never Forget your First Tchaikovsky.
Or at least, I probably won’t. It was, of course, The Nutcracker, that sinister, imaginative, and like completely, totally weird piece which seems not so much composed as etched on the consciousness of the Western World. One of those pieces, like...
