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Classical CDs: Mexican brass, fairy gardens and a socially distanced orchestral recording | reviews, news & interviews Classical CDs: Mexican brass, fairy gardens and a socially distanced orchestral recording Classical CDs: Mexican brass, fairy gardens and a socially distanced orchestral recording Hefty piano sonatas, a joyous symphony and a semi-improvised epic from an inventive trumpeter by Graham RicksonSaturday, 08 May 2021 Boris Giltburg (Naxos) It s worth noting that Beethoven s final piano sonatas weren t his last works; there was still a lot of music in him. Performing them as weighty, epic closing statements can smother the sonatas’ inventiveness, so it’s good to hear Boris Giltburg emphasising Beethoven’s charm and invention. He doesn’t undersell the gravitas, but lightness and energy are what draw us in. Reach the understated close of No. 32’s “Arietta” and there’s a feeling of frustration that we’ve hit the end. Gi ....
Listening back 2020: Oregon recordings from a fraught year Spotlighting a last batch of 2020 Oregon recordings I know the last thing many of us want to do is revisit 2020. But we can’t let it slip away without spotlighting one final batch of musical recommendations gleaned from the many recordings Oregon musicians released last year. Some explicitly respond to the crises that plagued what ArtsWatch’s Bob Hicks calls “The Year That Should Not Speak Its Name.” Others were made earlier and released last year. Whether soothing or invigorating, they’re all worth hearing even after the year they appeared. With most Oregon music happening on our home screens and speakers rather than stages last year, we’ve been devoting more pixels to recordings than ever. This is the last of several recording roundups explicitly devoted to last year’s Oregon sounds, but our antennae are already a-quiver over some stimulating sounds already emanating from 2021, so stay tuned fo ....