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Bartok and other download delights
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 10/04/2012
» Anyone who has tried to shop for classical discs recently here in Bangkok is aware of the toll that downloading has taken on the CD industry. But even with many CD and DVD companies going into defensive mode and encoding their discs in SACD or other multichannel formats that cannot, as far as I know, be easily accessed in download form, nothing is going to reverse this trend any time soon.
A vant-garde showcase
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 27/03/2012
» Every year since 1921, listeners interested in the directions that contemporary music is taking have descended upon the southwest German town of Donaueschingen to catch up with the latest at the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the oldest modern music festival in the world. Most of the world's leading modernist composers have had a work premiered or performed there, and in recent years there have been commercial recordings to allow listeners who can't attend the festival to get an earful of the latest.
A Baroque favourite
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 07/02/2012
» J.S. Bach's six Brandenburgs are right up there with Vivaldi's The Four Seasons as some of the most popular works in the Baroque repertoire, but they are so musically rich that most listeners never tire of them. If you collect recordings of music by Bach, you probably have at least one set of Brandenburgs already, but this new release, in sparkling Blu-ray audio, is worth considering even if you already own several.