Gavin Borchert
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Gavin Borchert is a composer and music critic living in Seattle.
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Glenn Gould, Bach: Goldberg V…
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations draw their nickname (Ba… more »
Brodsky Quartet, ELEGIE…
No other chamber ensemble comes to mind who is as versatile as the Brodsk… more »
Geirr Tveitt, TVEITT: Piano C…
Taking up, in a way, where Edvard Grieg left off, Geirr Tveitt was devote… more »
John Cage & Margaret Len…
Just by inserting screws, rubber erasers and other tidbits between a pian… more »
Kleiber, Alexander Borodin: S…
I clearly remember my sister, eight or nine at the time, dragged to one o… more »
Trevor Pinnock, Bach: Six Con…
Incomparably joyous and sparkling, these six pieces can claim to be both … more »
Dmitriy Sokolov, Chopin: 24 P…
The early Romantics not only expanded music's scope, they contracted … more »
Franz Berwald, BERWALD: Overt…
A composer ahead of his time, underrated, forced to make a living outside… more »
Charles Ives, IVES: Three Qua…
This atmospheric song, sensitively performed by members of the new-music … more »
Fabrice Pierre, REINECKE: Flu…
Conservative, yes, but by all accounts kindly, modest and a beloved teach… more »
Arditti Quarte, Ligeti: Strin…
The Arditti Quartet is known for being able to master even the most fierc… more »
The Chilingirian Quartet, Moz…
Acknowledging that Haydn was the great master of the form, Mozart dedicat… more »
Kreutzer Quartet, Schwartz / …
In the early '60s, George Rochberg became dissatisfied with the restr… more »
New Zealand Quartet, BERG: St…
Very few works written in the intervening 81 years sound as downright wei… more »
Artis Quartett Wien, Webern …
Webern began as a sort of post-Mahlerian late romantic, but he soon found… more »
Bela Bartok, BARTOK: String Q…
Many composers have been inspired by folk music, neatening it up somewhat… more »
Antonin Dvorak, DVORAK: Strin…
One of the most popular quartets in the repertory is Dvorak's "Americ… more »
Maurice Ravel, DEBUSSY: Strin…
Almost invariably paired on disc with Ravel's 1903 Quartet, Debussy… more »
Dmitry Shostakovich, SHOSTAKO…
Practically all commentators on Shostakovich's music make the distinc… more »
Franz Joseph Haydn, HAYDN: St…
Haydn wrote 80-odd quartets in his life, the first great body of literatu… more »
Raphael Quartet, Beethoven, S…
This disc includes one each of Beethoven's early, middle and late qua… more »
Bernard Haitink, London Symph…
Beethoven took the standard forms of his time and made them bigger in eve… more »
Gachinger Kantorei Stuttgart,…
For his follow-up to The Creation, Haydn deals with matters earthly, in a… more »
Franz Joseph Haydn, HAYDN: St…
One of Haydn's works that does achieve Mozartean transcendence is the… more »
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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal
By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »