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Ten Christmas covers, overtaken by the originals
It is said that everything new is well forgotten old. We decided to support this expression and prepared for you a fresh selection of “bearded” Christmas hits in new arrangements, which overshadowed their originals on all counts. Go!
Carol of the Bells [original] One of the most popular Christmas compositions is none other than the Ukrainian folk song “Shchedryk”, adapted by Nikolai Leontovich. The composer worked on it for almost twenty years: the first edition was presented in 1901, and in 1916 it was first performed by the choir of Kiev University. The English analogue of “Shchedryk” – “Carol of the Bells” – sounded in “South Park”, “The Simpsons”, “Family Guy”, “Adams Family”, “Die Hard” … this list is endless. Continue reading
Classics from contemporaries: five new albums of academic music
Hits of concert halls and premieres of little-known composers. Young virtuosos, nuggets and groups with a century of history. Baroque, reminiscent of minimalism. So, we continue the review of modern recordings of classical music, released at the end of last year and the beginning of this year. We tell in the genre “Classics for Dummies” – in simple words about pleasant works that are worth listening to in any case.
Seong-Jin Cho, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Chamber Orchestra of Mozart: Piano Concerto N ° 20 K466 – Sonatas K281 & K332 “” I love playing Mozart, but not because it is easier than other composers, it’s just that its music is very joyful. And multi-layered, ”says Cho Son Jin. And he believes that Mozart’s music is “opera”, so it’s worth playing it not very strictly, but free. Continue reading
Madonna’s discography as a mirror of digital record evolution
Madonna’s first albums coincided with the distribution of CDs on the market and her further work clearly shows how the priorities in record recording changed. Let us examine them in more detail.
On June 14, Madonna released her 14th album “Madame X”. The word form firmly settled in the school essays – “it was reflected in the novel” and further stationery was la-la from another essay. Older writers at this place start to talk about the diversity of the pop diva, her writings and other merits. Well what can I say, a lovely woman, a pantheon of gods, where we are, and where is she? Therefore, we turn on a parallel path. To date, Hi-Res publications have touched only five releases from the discography of Madonna. Continue reading
