Christian Tetzlaff & Lars Vogt I must admit I only discovered Christian Tetzlaff’s outstanding talent in the last two years. There are so many talented female violinists out there, as a self-de...
Herbie Hancock First of all, I haven’t posted here in more than 2 months. Wow, time flies. A lot of stuff going on at work, but still, not sure why I haven’t posted more. One of the reasons i...
https://musicophilesblog.com/2022/05/15/herbie-hancock-empyrean-isles/
I’m not an audiophile OK, that statement is only partially true. I do care about the sound quality of my music, I have a mid-level speaker system and a high end headphone setup, and I did spend...
First of all, sorry for my long absence, there was just too much going on in my day job. I even skipped my traditional section “reflections on the Gramophone awards”. The Chopin Nocturnes Whi...
Mozart’s string quartets I must admit that for years I somewhat ignored Mozart’s chamber music, or actually quite a bit of Mozart’s other works as well (more to come in future posts). Mozar...
Robert Schumann I haven’t written very many entries on Schumann yet. That is not because I don’t like this composer. In fact, his symphonies, typically either played by Szell, Gardiner, or mo...
Bedřich Smetana I haven’t written much about the other famous Czech composer (that said, even Dvorak doesn’t have a post dedicated to one of his works yet on this blog, I should change that)...
Stan Getz I haven’t written that much about Stan Getz on my blog, as I don’t listen to his albums very often. He’s probably best known for his latin jazz collaborations with Joao Gilberto, ...
https://musicophilesblog.com/2021/07/04/moments-in-time-one-of-the-best-stan-getz-live-albums/
Brahms’ Piano Concertos There is clearly no lack of excellent performances of the two Brahms piano concertos. There are many masterful recordings from the 1960s with the great piano legends, Cu...
The “Sun Bear” Concerts Keith Jarrett has recorded A LOT of solo concerts. Attending one of the last of them in 2015 actually triggered me to start this blog. I’ve reviewed a number of them...