Dinos Constantinides was a prolific composer of operatic, orchestral, chamber and solo works. These notes were written for a Tribute Concert featuring a curated selection of chamber and solo pieces.
The program notes to Heroes & Icons explores how these characters are brought to life in music without words. Drawn from ancient myth, religious lore, and the theatrical stage, their legendary status is cemented in great music.
The booklet essay included in the hard copy recording of Acts of Faith, exploring music written with an expressly spiritual purpose, and the composers’ own thoughts on transcendence.
This is the story of Liszt’s Totentanz and how it relates to all different kinds of art pieces by Hans Holbein. It tells about Liszt’s obsession with Dies Irae and his putting that into piano music
A performer's history, or, an esoteric history, of the Goldberg Variations and its influence on performing musicians.
An overview of the cultural history of the fugue, and Bach's application in his monumental Well-Tempered Clavier.
Visions of a musical universe.