ORIENTAL LANDSCAPES

Never mind the hideous cover photo of Evelyn Glennie; this is a fine disc containing some fascinating music. The least interesting work here is Thea

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LA FOLIA

Very few artists transform the scholarly into the genuinely entertaining as successfully as Jordi Savall. He makes early music accessible and fun, and this disc,

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Turnage Chandos 5/9 C

Mark-Anthony Turnage is a not very interesting composer whose aesthetic resembles the style of other pop-music influenced musicians like Torke or Daugherty, though without the

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Xenakis Oresteia

The origins of Iannis Xenakis’ Oresteïa are almost more remarkable than the music itself, a truly bizarre “only in the USA” sort of story. Sometime

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