Category
Album
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
The versatile Brooklyn Rider String Quartet is one of a number of chamber groups seeking to take the...
Author
David Pearson
Question: When is a group not a group? Answer: Don't ask DYGONG. - CD Liner Notes The CD arrived in...
Author
Andrew Lee
I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved,...
Author
Paul Kilbey
Twitter has surprised me. I initially was one of the skeptics, assuming that the 140 character limit...
Author
Andrew Lee
Placing the pianist Brad Mehldau into a particular genre or category seems tricky; being defined as...
Author
Steven Berryman
Ann Southam, who passed away at the age of 73 in 2010, was one of Canada’s foremost composers. Befor...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Three composers – each aiming to create modern music in which form has been replaced by “structures”...
Author
Rob Wendt
There are two multi-movement works by Philip Glass and one by Michael Nyman on the new album release...
Author
Matt Weber
Pärt Piano Music by Naxos features pianist Ralph van Raat interpreting the Estonian composer’s music...
Author
Rob Wendt
