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Album
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Three composers – each aiming to create modern music in which form has been replaced by “structures”...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
On her new album Terrestre, Claire Chase achieves every woodwind player’s fantasy: playing with a pe...
Author
David Pearson
Following a fair amount of controversy regarding scandalous album art, Steve Reich released a new al...
Author
George Heathco
Holiday CDs come and go. Some fade out while others become lasting favorites. My prediction is tha...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Every so often an album comes out with the right combination of substance and edge that you know rep...
Author
David Pearson
A fascinating new release from Signum Classics, and the second with the London Sinfonietta, is In Se...
Author
Steven Berryman
Putting out a solo album for bassoon without any harmonic accompaniment is a daring move. The sound...
Author
David Pearson
Albany’s release of recent works by Jan Krzywicki captures the unique and coherent voice of this Phi...
Author
David Pearson
Hippos Epos is the latest release by Italian percussionist Sebastiano de Gennaro, on Trovarobato's P...
Author
George Heathco
On his new album from Cantaloupe Music, this was written by hand, David Lang treats the piano altern...
Author
Rob Wendt
Earlier this Fall, Cantaloupe (the record label created 10 years ago by the founders of Bang on a Ca...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
There are many elements of music which we take for granted, especially in traditional Western music,...
Author
Neil Prufer
The Delos label’s new disc of Tchaikovsky’s complete works for violin and piano delivers consistentl...
Author
David Pearson
Violinist Aisha Orazbayeva's debut album Outside released 31st October 2011 on the UK-based Nonclass...
Author
Steven Berryman
Alan Hovhaness would have been 100 this year, and for this occasion Delos is releasing American Myst...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Francisco Goya's famous series of prints Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War) were crea...
Author
Jeremy Howard Beck
Astral Vinyl is an album of new works by Texan composer Stephen Barber released in May of this year...
Author
Matt Weber
Brian Elias (b. 1948) spent his early life in Bombay before moving to London. Three of his later orc...
Author
Steven Berryman
The titular composition of Lisa Moore's new EP, composed in 2008, refers to a telegraph operator. T...
Author
Rob Wendt