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La Folia Music Review. Mostly Classical music reviews, some audio, photos, poetry and other digressions. We have a few obsessions and gripes.

 Boston Area / New England, US
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The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… via @NewYorker

The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects

E.T. was jello in a T-shirt. The Mummy was scratchy potpourri. For Foley artists, deception is an essential part of the enterprise.

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Ramble, with Skeletons lafolia.com/ramble-with-skel…
Ramble, with Skeletons

Ramble, with Skeletons

An algorithm plays samples from eight analog synthesizers, the skeletons in Applebaum’s closet

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IPC’s Acoustic Equalizer Panels lafolia.com/ipcs-acoustic-eq…
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EA Bucket 20. lafolia.com/ea-bucket-20/?ut…

EA Bucket 20.

Perhaps Hunt really was a technology-adept medium reinterpreting mystical pronouncements by John Dee and Edward Kelley. Or maybe the convoluted proclamations are mere sleight-of-hand.

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Beethoven and Schnittke in Boston with the Danish String Quartet lafolia.com/beethoven-and-sc…
Beethoven and Schnittke in Boston with the Danish String Quartet

Beethoven and Schnittke in Boston with the Danish String Quartet

At Jordan Hall in Boston this past Saturday, the Danish String Quartet offered spotless performances of two Beethoven quartets. There’s not much that can stand up to Beethoven, but the group made a...

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History Lessons: Nixon and Gandhi visit the MET lafolia.com/history-lessons-…

History Lessons: Nixon and Gandhi visit the MET

Suppose you’re writing an opera and want it to run at the Metropolitan Opera. For best results, make it minimal with a political subject.

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Three Tiensuus lafolia.com/three-tiensuus/?…
Three Tiensuus

Three Tiensuus

Modern music tends to be aggressive with soured dissonance. Tiensuu finds a playful, less ponderous route.

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Scardanelli’s Motley lafolia.com/scardanellis-mot…
Scardanelli’s Motley

Scardanelli’s Motley

Morton Feldman’s 1979 Violin and Orchestra – this being the only major-label performance I know of – engages on a couple of counts.

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Used Bin Troll Tweets F.

A distinct nostalgic voice whose Concerto No. 4 idly reconstructs a lost Russia.

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Is Via Crucis colorless and ephemeral? Is Socrate religious? This duo piano release crafts a universe where Liszt, Satie and Cage blur.

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Used Bin Troll Tweets VV.

The first recording of an overlooked oratorio, tonal with buoyant cinematic colors.

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String Theory 18: Bundled Quartets and a few Trios lafolia.com/string-theory-18…

String Theory 18: Bundled Quartets and a few Trios

I imagine that Gorton enjoys a good joke. In Fosdyke Wash, a sighing cello part is marked “like distant agricultural machinery.” At that point, the cello sounds like a mewling chainsaw at a far...

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Xenakis and Stravinsky in America, Mahler too (via Copland) lafolia.com/xenakis-and-stra…
Xenakis and Stravinsky in America, Mahler too (via Copland)

Xenakis and Stravinsky in America, Mahler too (via Copland)

Copland invited Xenakis to Tanglewood in 1963, and between 1967 and ’72, Xenakis taught at Indiana University.

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Mostly Symphonies 25. lafolia.com/mostly-symphonie…

Mostly Symphonies 25.

Until recently, Cerha’s Spiegel was easier to see than to hear.

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Used Bin Troll Tweets K.

Alas, they don’t make them like this anymore!

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Mostly Symphonies 23. lafolia.com/mostly-symphonie…
Charles Rosen’s Goldbergs lafolia.com/charles-rosens-g…
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Used Bin Troll Tweets NN.

Used Bin Troll Tweets NN.

This may very well be the future.

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