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Mystical bliss
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 02/09/2014
» There must have been a mob of classical listeners who sensed a door opening when Chandos began releasing recordings of Danish composer Per Norgard's music in the late 1990s. Enthusiastic reviews award nominations and prizes stacked up. When the Leif Segerstan-directed account of the Third Symphony appeared, that clinched it — the work was clearly a masterpiece of the first rank by a composer, revered in his native Denmark, who had previously somewhat unknown to many (I knew him as the composer of the musical soundtrack for the film Babette's Feast).
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Flac downloads delight
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 03/07/2012
» For a long time, downloading music from the internet meant MP3 files, often compressed to the point where every vestige of atmosphere had been stripped from the music. Eventually things improved, with formats introduced that took up more space on a hard disc, but left more air around the music when heard through sensitive equipment.
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Sonorous reinterpreted
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 13/03/2012
» Sir Colin Davis' new, live recording of The Planets makes its mark right away with the very fast, mean and lean approach he chooses for "Mars, the Bringer of War". Has any other conductor pushed the piece this hard since Steinberg recorded it with the Boston Symphony for DG back in the early 1970s, and took a lot of critical heat as a result?
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