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The MHS Review 236
March 5, 1979
Exploring Music: Genuine and Inherent
Featured Release - HAYDN: Chamber Music on Original Instruments - Played by Die Instrumentisten
by David M. Greene
Exploring Music: Mahler--A Painter of Sounds
Featured Release - MAHLER:
Symphony No, 5 in C Sharp Minor & Symphony No. 10 (Adagio) - Kiril Kondrashin, USSR Symphony Orchestra (Sym. No. 5)/Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra (Sym. No. 10)
by David M. Greene
Exploring Music: A Sigh of Relief
Featured Release - MENDELSSOHN - The Three Sonatas for Piano - Christian Ivaldi, Piano
by David M. Greene
Music for Major Statements
An examination of Haydn's string quartets, seen in a timeline of an unparallelled two decades of artistic growth.
by Steven Packer
Exploring Music: Like an Angel in Ecstasy
Featured Release - VIVALDI: Sacred Music, Volume 2 - Chamber Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble of Lausanne, Michel Corboz, Director
by David M. Greene
Exploring Music: From Chopin's Roots
Featured Release - SCRIABIN: Selected Works for Piano - Dmitry Paperno, Piano
by David M. Greene
Scriabin - Innovator and Mystic
A quick biographical sketch of Alexander Scriabin, one of the more odd composers, and deserving of more attention
by Jeffrey Miller
Exploring Music: A Repository of Neglected Masterpieces
Featured Release: MICHEL PIGNOLET DE MONTECLAIR:
Vocal and Instrumental Music - Judith Nelson, Jacques Vandeville, William Christie, Ariane Maurette
by David M. Greene
Mahler: Last of the Romantic Symphonists
Another look at Mahler's 5th and 10th Symphonies - with biographical information and background.
by Joseph Braunstein
The Most Illustrious
Michael Praetorius, his life and his music.
by Christine Tolstoy
Full of Harmonic Richness
A different take on Scriabin's music, as listened to and experienced by a visual artist.
by Rachel Lulov Segall
Scriabin and Beethoven: A Striking Parallel
Dmitry Paperno shares his thoughts on a link between these two composers.
by Gerald M. Stein
Exploring Music: Three Claims to Fame
Featured Release: MICHAEL PRAETORIUS: Complete Organ Music, Volume 1 - Wolfgang Dallmann, organ
by David M. Greene
Worthy of Rescue
Vivaldi - could his real genius lie in his sacred compositions?
by Helen Baker
A Neat, Precise Genius
The young Mendelssohn and his overlooked contributions to solo piano.
by Charles Suttoni