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Maria Finkelmeier A Line that Terminates at the Present

A Line that Terminates at the Present: Maria Finkelmeier’s Composer Debut

A Line that Terminates at the Present, Maria Finkelmeier’s debut album as a composer, skillfully wea...
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Kevin Baldwin
Rachel Barton Pine Blues Dialogues

Rachel Barton Pine’s Blues Dialogues Explores Blues and Classical Idioms

Rachel Barton Pine is a versatile violinist and advocate for both new music and the cataloguing of m...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Yevgeny Kutik and Gity Razaz

Track Premiere: Yevgeny Kutik Performs Gity Razaz’s Cadenza for the Once Young

Today’s track premiere comes to us from “Meditations on Family,” violinist Yevgeny...
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Unheard-of//Ensemble

Track Premiere: Unheard-of//Ensemble Performs Erin Rogers’ Family Picnic 2008

Today’s track premiere features Unheard-of//Ensemble performing Erin Rogers‘ Family Picn...
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Fuse Ensemble's 3: Music of Gina Biver

Space, Identity, Audio in 3: The Music of Gina Biver (Ravello Records)

3: The Music of Gina Biver (Ravello Records) begins with Gina Biver herself, speaking directly in fr...
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Hannah Rosa Schiller
Transient Canvas Wired

Transient Canvas’ Wired Features Electroacoustic Commissions

Transient Canvas is a bass clarinet (Amy Advocat) and marimba (Matt Sharrock) duo that actively comm...
Author
Matthew Younglove
Wet Ink 20

Wet Ink 20: A Celebration of Creativity and Collaboration (Carrier Records)

Named the Best Ensemble of 2018 by the New York Times, Wet Ink Ensemble has been having a year of ce...
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Natalie Calma
2018 albums

2018 Contemporary Classical Music Albums: Editor’s Picks

It’s the time of the year for “Best of…” lists, and while this is indeed a r...
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Amanda Cook
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Silent Voices

Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ Silent Voices Inspires Change

Spend an hour and twenty minutes with Silent Voices, the newest release from the Grammy-Award winnin...
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Jeremiah Cawley
ROCO Visions Take Flight

Visions Take Flight: ROCO Impresses with Debut Album of New Music

Visions Take Flight is the remarkably assured debut album by the Houston-based River Oaks Chamber Or...
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Jeffrey Young
Everything the Rises

Everything that Rises: John Luther Adams Celebrates Landscapes

John Luther Adams‘ new album Everything That Rises (2018) was produced by Cold Blue Music, an...
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Kathleen McGowan
Dmitri Tymoczko Fools and Angels

Dmitri Tymoczko’s Fools and Angels (New Focus Recordings)

In 2015, surreal images produced by AIs as they learned to parse objects launched an internet frenzy...
Author
Nick Stevens
Gelsey Bell This is Not a Land of Kings

Gelsey Bell’s This is Not a Land of Kings: Stark, Simple, and Powerful

How do musicians deal with politics? The question weighs on the minds of composers and performers al...
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James May
Þráinn Hjálmarsson influence of buildings on musical tone

Þráinn Hjálmarsson’s Influence of Buildings on Musical Tone

Þráinn Hjálmarsson has found great success in his native Iceland and throughout Europe as a composer...
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Jarrett Goodchild
Anna Thorvaldsdottir -- Photo by Saga Sig

Track premiere: ICE Performs Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Illumine

Today’s track premiere features the International Contemporary Ensemble led by Steven Schick p...
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True Fluorescent Skeleton

True Fluorescent Skeleton: Unhinged and Psychedelic (Ehse Records)

The answer to what Bartok’s Mikrokosmos would have sounded like if he had access to psychedelics and...
Author
Kevin Baldwin
Aizuri Quartet Blueprinting

“In a Word, Stunning:” Aizuri Quartet’s Debut Album Blueprinting

This review could be very short: Aizuri Quartet’s debut album Blueprinting is brilliant. Purch...
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Brianna Matzke
Golden Hornet

Album Premiere: Golden Hornet’s The Sound of Science Featuring Jeffrey Zeigler

Today, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN premieres The Sound of Science, a new project from Austin’s compos...
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Trios for Two

“Dynamic Skill:” Molly Gebrian and Danny Holt’s Trios for Two (Innova)

The six works presented on the self-titled album Trios for Two, a 2017 Innova release by Danny Holt...
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Tracy Monaghan
Nordic Affect

Track Premiere: Nordic Affect Performs Hildur Guðnadóttir’s Point of Departure

Today’s track premiere features Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect performing Hildur Guðnadóttir...
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Esther Lamneck Tárogató Constructions

Esther Lamneck’s Tárogató Constructions: Sonic Environments and Improvisation

On her recent release from Innova, Esther Lamneck trades her clarinet for its country cousin (the co...
Author
Colin Holter
Ingrid Stölzel The Gorgeous Nothings

Ingrid Stölzel’s The Gorgeous Nothings: On Vocal Style and Longing

Ingrid Stölzel has a gift for evoking a sense of longing. One listen to any of the pieces on her new...
Author
Hannah Rosa Schiller
Eric Moe Uncanny Affable Machines

High-tech and Low-tech Interact on Eric Moe’s Uncanny Affable Machines

In his new album on New Focus Recordings, Uncanny Affable Machines, composer-pianist Eric Moe unveil...
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Jillian DeGroot
Baljinder Sekhon Places and Times

Places and Times: Percussion Ensemble Music by Baljinder Sekhon

Baljinder Sekhon’s recently released album, Places and Times (Innova), is a collection of his compos...
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Matthew Younglove
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