Category: CD Review

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…

  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…

  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 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 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 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 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…

Matt Evans Touchless Whatever’s Clever Records   “touchless questions the phenomenology of touch, reaching to transcend the boundaries of the physical to embody touch while remaining touchless.” – Matt Evans…

Caroline Shaw Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish The Narrow Sea Nonesuch CD/DL   Caroline Shaw and So Percussion Let the Soil Play its Simple Part Nonesuch CD/DL  …

Cold Blue Music has released a new CD by John Luther Adams titled Arctic Dreams. Scored for four vocalists and four strings, the seven movements on this album also incorporate…