My review of Alexander Malofeev’s debut release - “Forgotten Melodies.” It’s a winner. ross-review.blogspot.com/2026/03/reco...
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My review of Alexander Malofeev’s debut release - “Forgotten Melodies.” It’s a winner. ross-review.blogspot.com/2026/03/reco...
I love this symphony. One of my favorite Weinberg works .
My review of Edward Gardner’s new Brahms 2 and 4 with the Bergen Philharmonic on Chandos is up.
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My son plays Super Mario Wonder quite a bit. Any “ludomusicologist” looking for a good paper subject might check out its music. Many VERY interesting things go on in it musically. Stuff I’ve never seen before. Music as a key element of gameplay, not just underscoring.
Why do you think of the new Gardner? I’m reviewing that one soon.
Some things seem like they never end while you're experiencing them:
-Driving across Texas
-Getting a root canal
-Waiting in line at the DMV
-Pierre Monteux getting through Brahms 2
I’m honored to be chosen for the Music Library Association’s 2026 Eva Judd O’Meara Award for my review of Byron Adams’s and Daniel Grimley’s “Vaughan Williams and His World” in Notes.
Your music isn’t great just because your story is sad.
My review of the new Avril Coleridge-Taylor recording:
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Saddened to hear of Tamás Vásáry’s death. A very fine pianist who left behind some terrific Chopin recordings among other things.
My review of Chandos’s new Bennett/Duke Violin Concertos release.
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My review of Diyang Mei’s Bowen and Walton Viola Concertos.
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Martyn Brabbins sounds like the name of a hobbit.
My review of Paavo Järvi's new Mahler 1 with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich.
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My review of Eric Lu’s new Schubert Impromptus Recording.
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My review of Onyx’s recent Butterworth/Holst recording featuring Andrew Manze and the RLPO. @loveinner.bsky.social
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Review coming today or tomorrow. Will post. Positive.
I agree with you on Manze’s RVW symphonies. What did you think of his recent Butterworth/Holst disc?
I’m very much enjoying Eric Lu’s new Schubert Impromptus recording. He has a wonderful touch and great musical instincts.
My review of Pletnev’s new Chopin/Scriabin preludes recording. Yuck.
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My review of SOMM’s new Samuel Coleridge-Taylor release. This one’s a winner.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a very good composer.
Great disc.
Hot take: Pierre Boulez’s contributions to performance don’t measure up to the harm his polemics had on the Western classical tradition.
He did some good stuff early on. But this just seems like someone trying to eke out territory in well-trodden repertoire. Of course many critics are eating it up. They’re just thrilled with anything different…doesn’t have to be good.
I won’t say Pletnev’s new Chopin/Scriabin disc is bad all the way the way through, but it’s forced and even a bit mannered.
Review to come.
“There is always a danger in musicology of making too much out of too little.”- Alan Walker, “Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times” (Picador, 2018), p. 478.
I’d say over 50% of musicology I read has this problem. Amplification of mere possibility, + impatience with the limitations of primary sources.
A composer I’ve steadily come to admire a great deal. Took a while and lots of listening, but now I love plenty of his works.
