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Remaking a Rug Concert: Boulez at 100

February 20, 2025 Christian Carey

Sound On: A Tribute to Boulez The New York Philharmonic, Conducted by David Robertson Jane McIntyre, Soprano David Geffen Hall, January 25, 2025 By Christian Carey – Sequenza 21 NEW…

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Lisa Illean Debut on NMC (CD Review)

February 19, 2025 Christian Carey

Lisa Illean Arcing, stilling, bending, gathering NMC Records, 2024 Composer Lisa Illean (b. 1983) is from Australia and has been based in recent years in the UK. Her work encompasses…

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Seattle Symphony performs Fauré, Ravel and Attahir

February 2, 2025 Michael Schell

It was a valiant effort, and one that might work better in the studio than onstage, but there’s a reason why the coupling of harp and piano, especially with an…

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Compelling and Visceral: “In a Grove” and Arooj Aftab at Prototype

January 23, 2025 Gail Wein

PROTOTYPE – OPERA | THEATRE | NOW defines itself as a “festival of visionary opera-theatre and music-theatre works”. Its presentation of In a Grove (January 16 – 19, 2025) was…

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Canyons compilation benefits LA Firefighters

January 17, 2025 Christian Carey

Canyons compilation Sequenza 21 friend Nick Norton has speedily put together a digital compilation called “Canyons” to benefit LA firefighters. It is a loaded setlist, with contributions from India Galley,…

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Kalevi Aho’s String Quartets (CD Review)

January 10, 2025 Christian Carey

Kalevi Aho String Quartets 1-3 Stenhammar Quartet BIS Kalevi Aho (1949-) is a prominent Finnish composer whose oeuvre includes a number of orchestral and chamber works and a smaller body…

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Persist – Ethel and Loggins-Hull (CD Review)

January 7, 2025 Christian Carey

Persist Ethel and Allison Loggins-Hull Sono Luminus The string quartet Ethel presents a characteristically diverse program of contemporary music on Persist, their first recording for Sono Luminus. They are joined…

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Music for Trumpets, Bass Clarinets, and Saxophones (CD Review)

January 6, 2025 Christian Carey

Music for Trumpets, Bass Clarinets, and Saxophones Aural Terrains Rebecca Toal, Katie Lodge, Bradley Jones, trumpets Raymond Brien, Michelle Hromin, Eb and bass clarinets Chris Cundy, Yoni Silver, bass clarinets…

Contemporary Classical

Post-identity music: Schell’s picks for 2024

January 1, 2025 Michael Schell

It’s been a somber year, with wars, conflicts, and intractable cultural and political divisions weighing on the lives and thoughts of many, including those with an investment in Western art…

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Musica Sacra at Carnegie Hall (Concert Review)

December 19, 2024 Christian Carey

Music Sacra Classics for Christmas: Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven Musica Sacra Chorus and Orchestra Kent Tritle, conductor Simone Dinnerstein, piano Susanna Phillips, soprano Carnegie Hall December 18, 2024 NEW YORK…

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