Category
Album
Chamber music is hard. It’s hard to play and even harder to write. Both composer and performer are e...
Author
Daniel Garrick
Swiss composer and performer Martin Schlumpf (b. 1947) is little known in this country. In fairness,...
Author
Jay Greenberg
Anyone who writes music has to figure out how to balance structure and emotion. Logic and unpredicta...
Author
Evan Burke
I’ve been waiting for this album to come out since the Bang on a Can Marathon back in June. That was...
Author
Sam Reising
This album is the creative fruit of a unique Bay Area collaboration between San Francisco Choral Art...
Author
Rob Wendt
Other evils there are that may come; for Sauron is himself but a servant or emissary. -Gandalf, The...
Author
Andrew Lee
Music I'm Buying is a series dedicated to reviewing albums that are not sent gratis to I Care if You...
Author
Andrew Lee
Whenever the key parts of a sentence are the words “Brian Eno” and “new music ensemble,” I cringe a...
Author
Neal Markowski
Since its beginnings in the late 1990s, the string quartet Ethel has grown to become a powerful forc...
Author
Sam Reising
As the Rite of Spring approaches 100 years of public life, interest in Stravinsky’s masterpiece is s...
Author
Richard Barnard
On Joel Frederiksen’s Requiem for a Pink Moon, an Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake, selections from...
Author
Elias Blumm
Nonclassical are an organisation with big plans for music’s future, intent on taking the “classical”...
Author
Paul Kilbey
Evan Ziporyn's new recording, Big Grenadilla /Mumbai, manages to be futuristic while playing with tr...
Author
Evan Burke
Alejandro Rutty’s new album The Conscious Sleepwalker is both a tour de force of the tango form, a...
Author
Matt Weber
“They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them…” In the poem “I Sing the Body Electr...
Author
Elias Blumm
I am very pleased to announce that the Summer 2012 Mixtape is out! It is completely free and just a...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
CDs are not live music. CDs have to compete for our attention in ways that concerts never do. They n...
Author
Andrew Lee
Theory and aesthetics in new music are two very, very different things. There’s what goes in to a pi...
Author
Paul Kilbey
Violinist Cornelius Dufallo’s new CD Journaling presents the music of six contemporary composers liv...
Author
David Pearson
The young German musicians in Trio Elego give fine presentations of music by Daniel Schnyder and Mik...
Author
David Pearson
Let's play a word association game. If I say, "prepared piano," many of you might think "John Cage."...
Author
Andrew Lee
You might credit Leonard Berstein for inspiring this CD, who described the "many-sidedness" of Ameri...
Author
Andrew Lee
There are rare moments in history when political and social upheaval come together with artistic inn...
Author
David Pearson
