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mais que palavras bonitas: Ricardo Arjona, 12 Grandes Éxitos

Posted in reseña, tagged , , , on September 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This superb collection of the Guatemalan singer’s hits does justice to a musician whose fiercely loyal fan base considers that he sings more than just pretty words. Arjona’s presentation is often spare, which makes it all the more powerful when his orchestration pulls in the big guns (‘Si el norte fuera el sur’). (more…)

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You … and reality: Tracy Chapman, Telling Stories

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

For Tracy Chapman, ‘you … and reality’ are not synonymous. Rather, the aggrieved architecture of her lyrics claims that ‘there is fiction in the space between you .. and reality.’ (more…)

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This is how Uncle Herbie used to play Beethoven: Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Symphonies 2 & 7 (Deutsche Grammophon, Galleria)

Posted in reseña, tagged , , , , , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

One feels sometimes as though the presence of the great ones still lingers about the house, bumping into things and taking their place at the family dinner. Having grown up with the music and images of Herbert van Karajan in the mix, it is not too difficult to allow the imagination to see the diminutive Austrian assuming an avuncular place in the proceedings. (more…)

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the music that elevates Cruise’s game: Minority Report (motion picture soundtrack)

Posted in reseña, tagged , , , , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

You only have to listen through John Williams’ intensely spooky score a few times to realize that it is the emotional potency of film music in the Williams style that makes Tom Cruise and his colleagues on this Spielberg sci-fi flick seem as edgy as they do. The acting without the music would be another matter, good but not great, tense but not heartstopping. (more…)

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rumors of demise are overstated: Gramophone

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on September 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Conventional wisdom and damned statistics conspire to persuade that the population of classical music listeners is declining measurably year upon year. You’d never know it from reading GRAMOPHONE. Readers are typically devotees of the musical form and not about to let the rest of the world persuade them that their devotion is misplaced or–horrors–out of date. GRAMOPHONE obliges them with passionate coverage of the artists, the music, and the industry. (more…)

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one of the great kick-offs: Mendelssohn – Elijah / G. Jones, J. Baker, Gedda, Fischer-Dieskau, Frühbeck de Burgos

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 8, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Mendelssohn’s Elijah has been loved, hated, belted out by innumerable church and community choirs, performed with white-tie panache, and more often than not simply ignored. It’s a difficult work to categorize and even more challenging to review helpfully, since it often appears to be several works in one. (more…)

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