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Classical Music Review: “Widma” — An Imaginative Polish Experiment
November 25, 2018
This recording challenges our settled sense of what art music, in conjunction with colorful spoken and sung verse, can accomplish.
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Classical Music Commentary: Poetic Narratives in the Concert Hall, and a New Recording of Dvořák’s “The Spectre’s Bride”
A reflection on the whole tradition of combining longish narrative poems to music, especially for performance in a concert hall by large forces (e.g., singers and orchestra).
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