Out of the Cold Blue
I have been ill and unkind, wound between numerically proving how much my US residency is worth, internal Spring cleaning, and the impending season of elegiac allergies that I was once immune to. My work has not seized, but my digital transcriptions of thought have been bubbling away on the back burners. But they will be more like chowder than outmeal, believe you me. In the mean time, this is what it looks like when doves cry:
Eight Recent Acquisitions:
John Adams: Harmonielehre, Edo De Waart, San Francisco Symphony, Vinyl*
John Corigliano: Oboe Concerto, Poem in October (Dylan Thomas), Vinyl
Jim Fox: descansos, past, Cold Blue, CD
Kyle Gann: Long Night, Cold Blue, CD
György Ligeti: Keyboard Works Vol. 6, Sony Classical, CD
Max Reger: Klavierkonzert F-Minor, Amadeus Webersinke, Dresdner Philharmonie, Vinyl
George Rochberg: Symphony No. 5, Black Sounds, and Transcendental Variations, Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Naxos, CD
Stravinksy: Violin Concerto and Prokofiev: Violin Concertos No. 1 and No. 2, Cho-Liang Lin, Esa-Pekka Salonen, LA Phil, 1992, Sony Classical, CD
Currently Digesting: Structural Hearing: Tonal Coherence in Music by Felix Salzer, The Study of Fugue by Alfred Mann, and The Aesthetics of Survival by George Rochberg.
*I have waited many moons for this to appear and many times have I contemplated spending more Jacksons than necessary ordering it off of eBay from a weird man in Iowa. Thank you Amoeba.
