John Luther Adams – Waves and Particles
Cold Blue Music has released Waves and Particles, a new CD by John Luther Adams featuring the JACK Quartet. This new album by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Adams explores the deeper…
Richard Baker – The Tyranny of Fun (CD Review)
Richard Baker The Tyranny of Fun NMC Recordings Composer and conductor Richard Baker (b. 1972) has been an important fixture on the British new music scene for over a decade.…
David Crowell – Point Cloud (CD Review)
David Crowell Point/Cloud Better Company Records Composer and multi-instrumentalist David Crowell has minimalist bona fides: he played in the Philip Glass Ensemble for nearly a decade. But Crowell draws from…
C.P.E. Bach Symphonies on Harmonia Mundi
Carl Philip Emanuel Bach Symphonies from Berlin to Hamburg Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Mayumi Hirasaki and Georg Kallweit, concertmasters Harmonia Mundi Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) was the middle…
Philip Glass Solo – 88 keys at 87 (Review)
Philip Glass Solo Philip Glass, piano Orange Mountain Music This is the second piano album made by Philip Glass. Solo Piano (1989) contains some overlap of tracks with the latest…
Peter Thoegersen – Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music in Four Pieces
Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music in Four Pieces, by Peter Thoegersen, is a new digital release from the Fragments of Blue recording label. Since obtaining his Doctorate in Composition from the University…
Kinds of ~Nois (CD Review)
Kinds of ~Nois ~Nois, Kinds of Kings Bright Shiny Things The Bright Shiny Things recording Kinds of ~Nois is the result of a six-year long collaboration between the saxophone quartet…
Euclid Quartet – Breve (Recording Review)
Breve Euclid Quartet Afinat The Breve Quartet has been in residence at Indiana University South Bend for sixteen years. During that time they have recorded a wide range of repertoire.…
Martin Arnold – Flax (CD Review)
Martin Arnold Flax Kerry Yong, piano Another Timbre Martin Arnold’s solo piano work Flax has a sad backstory. It was originally commissioned by the abundantly talented new music pianist Philip…
Jeffrey Mumford – Echoing Depths on Albany
Jeffrey Mumford Echoing Depths Albany Records Jeffrey Mumford’s music channels high modernism into imaginative works that are luminously textured. His latest Albany release, Echoing Depths, features two pieces for orchestra…