By CHENDY BLOG Wednesday, February 19, 2014 Austria CDs col legno Music Beyond the Mozartkugeln At the beginning of January, I made a resolution to go beyond my usual musical diet and explore other genres, principally 'the music of...
By CHENDY BLOG Sunday, February 2, 2014 BBC Music New York Washington Twisting the Knife This week has been wearyingly typical in the world of arts coverage. Classical music is dead. Or not. Yes, we've heard it before, but in...
By CHENDY BLOG Wednesday, January 8, 2014 ALMA Austria Bartok Folk Franui Janáček Kodály Mahler Music Wunderhorn Engaging with Folk We compartmentalise: Classical Music. Pop. Rock etc. And within these genres we further subdivide – Classical, Romantic, Modern – bisecting ...
By CHENDY BLOG Monday, January 6, 2014 Austria CDs Music Vienna A Message for the New Year Shortly before the Christmas break, Mike Breneis, the CEO of Vienna-based record label col legno wrote the following: The thing with record...
By CHENDY BLOG Friday, December 20, 2013 Music Bringing the Old to the New (And vice versa). Were it not for the endless changing of 78s, I would invest in a gramophone immediately. Nice, then, that a group of Chica...
By CHENDY BLOG Saturday, September 28, 2013 Art Freud Mahler Music National Gallery Vienna Tension Lines In today's Independent on Sunday , ahead of the National Gallery's Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna 1900 , I ponder whethe...
By CHENDY BLOG Tuesday, September 10, 2013 Austria Grafenegg Music Vienna Wigmore Hall Hearing Better in the Morning Do we listen to classical music at the wrong time? Most concerts are scheduled between 7pm and 8pm, after we've rushed from the office, ...