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Album
The self-titled debut from The Knells (Andrew McKenna Lee, Mivos String Quartet, and more) is schedu...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
It’s probably true that the myth of the suffering artist is well and truly dead – if Duchamp’s pisso...
Author
Matt Mendez
The Philadelphia-based choir The Crossing's recent CD for Innova Recordings, I want to live , is a s...
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Ruth Carver
Aheym—released by Anti- on November 5—marks guitarist Bryce Dessner’s recorded debut as featured com...
Author
Daniel Kushner
Schooldays Over is Chris Campbell and Grant Cutler’s dark and haunting reimagining of Ewan MacColl’s...
Author
George Heathco
Sometimes contemporary orchestral music is abrasively radical. And sometimes the revolution is much...
Author
Daniel Kushner
Aptly named in an age of technology-induced isolation, Imaginary Friends (navona) explores the relat...
Author
Amanda Cook
Shifting Treks, a recent navona release, catapults us into the sound world of a formidable champion...
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Gavin Gamboa
Erik Lotichius has been an island unto himself as a composer for most his career. Proudly voicing hi...
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Jarrett Goodchild
Lera Auerbach's Celloquy is a lesson in learning how to expect the unexpected. For one, the album re...
Author
Joanne Lam
This CD review by Don Clark was originally published in Issue 2 of our magazine and is offered here...
Author
Don Clark
In 2008, the structure of the world’s financial institutions were in free fall. With banks scramblin...
Author
Daniel Garrick
The programming on this, the ninth volume in Bridge’s long-running Elliott Carter Edition, is unexpe...
Author
Matt Mendez
Mellifluous gondoliers, bloodthirsty La Scala patrons, and rotund Neapolitans belting “O sole mio”:...
Author
Matt Mendez
The Meridian Arts Ensemble performs the brass chamber works of Andrew Rindfleisch in their newest al...
Author
Justin D. Wright
Philip Glass is, quite simply, a badass. He has written operas, film scores, orchestral music, chamb...
Author
Anya Brodrick
For Anssi Karttunen's 50th birthday in 2010, his wife, Muriel von Braun, and his dear friend, acclai...
Author
Marina Kifferstein
Composers from Schubert to Verdi to Rautavaara have set the Bard, but few composers can claim such a...
Author
Ruth Carver
Carlos Chávez (1899-1978) has been called the dean of Mexican classical music, important not just fo...
Author
Don Clark
Dan Trueman's neither Anvil nor Pulley ("nAnP") opens with the old-fashioned crackle of a vinyl reco...
Author
Dana Wen
The temptation to over-intellectualize Big Farm's self-titled debut is hard to resist.—which isn't t...
Author
Evan Burke
The Chicago based quintet Gaudete Brass presents here a celebration of new, American music for brass...
Author
Justin D. Wright
My first encounter with Dan Visconti's music was courtesy of the Aeolus Quartet and their debut albu...
Author
Andrew Lee
