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Searching for Prokofiev
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 18/03/2014
» Today, a few miscellaneous items and recommendations. A few weeks back while discussing Andrew Litton’s recent BIS recording of Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony...
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Boulez and nothing else
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 01/04/2014
» A real windfall for contemporary music listeners.
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Cruel comparisions to the classics
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 18/02/2014
» New operas certainly haven’t been in short supply over the past hundred years or so, but it is surprising how few have actually entered the repertoire, compared...
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Bach for more
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 01/10/2013
» You say that, as a classical collector, there are at least 74 recordings that you need to buy before investing in yet another version of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos?...
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Pure and simple
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 04/10/2013
» Nowadays you have to be ready to do some serious detective work to find a restaurant where standard Thai dishes are cooked in a way that discerning Thais of earlier...
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Solemn magnificence
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 15/10/2013
» Beethoven himself considered the Missa Solemnis, his second setting of the Latin mass text, to be his greatest achievement. Others might lean towards one of the...
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In a class of his own
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 29/10/2013
» Lang Lang is one of those rare artists whose name will sell tickets to people who don't normally go to classical concerts.
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Mother knows best
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 01/11/2013
» One of Bangkok's real culinary pleasures is the experience of stepping into an unremarkable-looking little food shop and finding a dish that is done really well....
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Get Carter
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 03/09/2013
» Maybe it was Elliott Carter's passing last year just short of his 104th birthday that spurred the re-release of these recordings, much longed-for by admirers...
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New awakening for Four Seasons
Life, Ung-Aang Talay, Published on 17/09/2013
» Max Richter really means it when he says he has recomposed Vivaldi's The Four Seasons. By his estimate about 75% of the original score went out the window as...