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Corpo di Terra Cover

Suzanne Farrin: Corpo di Terra on New Focus Recordings

The first release exclusively devoted to the music of Suzanne Farrin can be described as a quasi-aut...
Author
Xenia Pestova
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Ashley Paul: Line the Clouds on rel records

Upon coming to terms with the exceptional caliber this album bears, one must be prepared for the exp...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
No-name $100 electric guitar

$100 Guitar Project on Bridge Records

This is a Golem monster of musical compilations, a crazy idea that got out of control. “We are kind...
Author
Sam Zelitch
Leah Kardos: Machines Cover

Leah Kardos’ Machines on Bigo and Twigetti

I invited David D. McIntire, composer and founder of Irritable Hedgehog, to review Leah Kardos' soph...
Author
Andrew Lee
Canzonas Americanas Bermel Alarm Will Sound

Derek Bermel: Canzonas Americanas on Cantaloupe Music

Even as part of a scene where being more-eclectic-than-thou is a fundamental shibboleth and musical...
Author
Matt Mendez
David T. Little - Soldier Songs (Innova)

David T. Little’s Soldier Songs: The Composer as War Correspondent

I have uncles who fought in the Vietnam War, and I’ve never once talked to them about their wartime...
Author
Daniel Kushner
Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore: Stainless Staining on Cantaloupe

Some albums are good. They are worthy of a listen, enjoyable, and an excellent way to pass the time.
Author
Andrew Lee
Hugues Dufourt

Hugues Dufourt: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

The delightfully prickly Frederic Rzewski once commented somewhere that he couldn’t abide French mus...
Author
Matt Mendez
Quatuor Bozzini

Still Image: Chamber Music of Owen Underhill

In many ways, this is an intimate recording of intimate music. Still Image is a recording of two qua...
Author
David Dies
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Henryk Gorecki’s Concerto-Cantata on Naxos

Most musicians and audience members alike know Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (1933-2010) primarily for his...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
From Moog to Mac CD Cover

Herbert Deutsch: From Moog to Mac

From Moog to Mac sets about curating a documentation of processes, experimentation, and resulting ef...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
Warsaw Philharmonic

Fire and Time, American works for orchestra on Navona

None of the works on this compilation disc, composed from 1993 to 2009, are particularly adventurous...
Author
Don Clark
New Zealand String Quartet

Asian Music for String Quartet

The New Zealand String Quartet has shown much care and attention to detail in bringing to life the m...
Author
David Pearson
Kim Kashkashian

Music for Viola: Kim Kashkashian records Kurtág and Ligeti

One of the most pleasing aspects of listening to solo string repertoire, from Bach to Bartók, is its...
Author
Caitlin Smith
Sir Andrzej Panufnik

Panufnik: Orchestral Works Volume 5 on CPO

For much of his lifetime, Sir Andrzej Panufnik (1914-1991) enjoyed a stellar international reputatio...
Author
Don Clark
Emerging Voices - Zach Herchen, saxophone & Elisabeth Halliday, soprano

Emerging Voices: Blend and Beauty from Saxophone/Soprano Duo

While there is perhaps an over-abundance of saxophonists capable of playing blaring high notes, blaz...
Author
David Pearson
Arvo Pärt - Photo by Peeter Langovits

Arvo Pärt: Adam’s Lament

Having been appointed a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture by the incumbent pope, Arvo Pär...
Author
Daniel Emmerson
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Our Winter 2012 Mixtape is out!

Our new Winter 2012 Mixtape is live! It features music by Missy Mazzoli, Florent Ghys, The Ericksons...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the SFS in the Opening Concert of the American Mavericks Festival.

San Francisco Symphony: American Mavericks

Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and Edgard Varèse were truly mavericks in their day, challenging conventi...
Author
Don Clark
Jenni Olson

Dreaming High and Low: Jenni Olson’s The Dreams of Birds

The goal of Jenni Olson's new album, Dreams of Birds, is to utilize the "full array of tone colors"...
Author
Matt Weber
So Percussion

Sō Percussion and Grey McMurray: Where (we) Live

A makeshift model of the Brooklyn Bridge built out of old cardboard boxes resides on the front of th...
Author
Justin Rito
Weirdo Records

Music I’m Buying: France Jobin’s Valence

Music I’m Buying is a series dedicated to reviewing albums that are not sent gratis to I Care if You...
Author
Andrew Lee
Arvo Pärt - Photograph by K. Kikkas

Arvo Pärt: Creator Spiritus on Harmonia Mundi

Minimalist music seems a natural fit for setting texts of the Orthodox and Catholic churches. Both h...
Author
Andrew Lee
Cadillac Moon Ensemble

Cadillac Moon Ensemble’s Debut Album Drops

With the plethora of new music ensembles out there and the various instrumentations they employ, it’...
Author
David Pearson
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