Cinquecento Sings Isaac (CD Review)
Heinrich Isaac Missa Wohlauff gut Gsell von hinnen and other works Cinquecento Hyperion Records While not as famous today as Josquin, Heinrich Isaac (1450-1517) was a contemporary and rival…
Sunleif Rasmussen – Territorial Songs
Territorial Songs, a new CD release from the Our Recordings label features 72 minutes of distinctive recorder music by Sunleif Rasmussen. A native of the remote Faroe Islands, Rasmussen is…
Danny Driver Records Ligeti (CD Review)
György Ligeti The 18 Etudes Danny Driver Hyperion Composed between 1985 and 2001, the 18 Etudes by György Ligeti are an eloquent summary of the techniques he had…
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Live, in person and new: Contemporary music festivals in the Northeast in Summer 2021
LOUD Weekend, TIME:SPANS, Tanglewood and Bard are all back on stage this summer with in-person audiences Fans starved for live music over the past year and half can rejoice and…
Magnus Lindberg on Ondine (CD Review)
Magnus Lindberg Aura – Marea – Related Rocks Emil Holmström, Joonas Ahonen, piano and keyboards; Jani Niinimaki, Jerry Plippomem, percussion Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu Ondine This…
Scott Wollschleger – Dark Days (CD Review)
Scott Wollschleger Dark Days New Focus Recordings Karl Larson, piano Scott Wollschleger’s music has great emotional range. Dark Days explores an atmospheric and lyrical side to his composing for…
Mogwai: “As the Love Continues” (CD Review)
Mogwai As the Love Continues Rock Action/Temporary Residence Ltd. On February 26th, twenty-five years into their recording career, Mogwai hit #1 on the UK charts. The band’s two previous…
Attacca Quartet – Real Life (CD Review)
Attacca Quartet Real Life Sony Music CD/DL Kronos Quartet excepted, there have been a lot of really bad arrangements of pop music for string quartet. Part of the problem…
Martin Suckling on NMC (CD Review)
Martin Suckling This Departing Landscape NMC Recordings CD/DL Tamara Stefanovich (piano), Katherine Bryan (flute), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Ilan Volkov Two concertos and two substantial orchestral works…
Remembering Louis Andriessen
Louis Andriessen has died. He was a highly idiosyncratic composer of music that, like the man himself, inspires great love. Encountering his music as a young composer changed my life.…