Thursday, April 28 2011
Hauschka: Salon Des Amateurs
Salon Des Amateurs is great fun and probably the most floral piece of belle époque kitsch you’ll hear all year: perfect background music for your Baudelaire reading group, but it might be a bit much for less adventurous ears.
Tuesday, March 3 2009
Hauschka: Snowflakes & Carwrecks
The companion piece to last year's Ferndorf, by the German composer known for his prepared piano pieces.
Wednesday, October 29 2008
Hauschka: Ferndorf
Hauschka revisits his roots and brings back introspective beauty, alternately lighthearted and somber.
Monday, June 11 2007
Hauschka: Versions of the Prepared Piano
To really love it I'd have to enjoy Tarwater's "World of Things to Touch" as much as I like "Para Bien" and I don't, I can't.
Tuesday, March 6 2007
Hauschka: Room to Expand
For Hauschka, the pleasures of piano preparation seem to lie in subtle timbral manipulations and accents.
Tuesday, October 25 2005
Hauschka: The Prepared Piano
A different take on piano playing... unusual and interesting.
