BMOP: An Interview with Gil Rose
Gil Rose directs the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, or BMOP. The orchestra’s in house label, BMOP/Sound, has released a spate of vital CDs of American music. I recently interviewed Rose…
RIP Matt Marks (1980-2018)
All of us at Sequenza 21 are saddened to learn of the passing of Matt Marks. A musical polymath, he was a composer, new music advocate, provocative Twitter presence, co-founder…
Mark Renner: Few Traces
On Febuary 16, 2018, RVNG Intl. digitally released Few Traces, a recording of rarities by Mark Renner. The physical release is this Friday (February 23rd). Renner is an under-heralded icon…
Poppy Ackroyd – Resolve (CD)
Poppy Ackroyd Resolve One Little Indian CD/DL Brighton-based multi-instrumentalist and composer Poppy Ackroyd has released her fourth album, Resolve, on One Little Indian. Like her previous work, ambient neoclassical instrumentals…
Maderna and Berio on ECM (CD Review
Now, and Then Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor Pablo Márquez, guitar ECM 2485 November 17 sees the release of Now, and Then, an ECM recording of transcriptions…
Bruce Brubaker at LPR
Bruce Brubaker Le Poisson Rouge September 17, 2017 Sequenza 21 By Christian Carey NEW YORK – Pianist Bruce Brubaker has long been known as one of the best interpreters of…
Kurtág on ECM
György Kurtág Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir Asko | Schönberg and Netherlands Radio Choir; Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor ECM Records 3xCD 2505-07 Composer György Kurtág was born in Transylvania,…
Aaron Parks Trio at Smalls
Aaron Parks Trio Smalls Live June 16, 2017 By Christian Carey NEW YORK – Nestled snuggly in the midst of Greenwich Village, Smalls Live is an intimate space, but a…
Marc Sabat and JACK – Harmony (CD)
Marc Sabat Harmony JACK Quartet Canadian Composers Series #5 Another Timbre Euler Spirals Scenery (2011), Claudiu Ptolemy (2008), Jean Philippe Rameau (2012) A long time fixture on the Toronto scene…
Mariel Roberts on New Focus (CD Review)
Mariel Roberts Cartography New Focus Recordings CD/DL Mariel Roberts Cartography New Focus Recordings CD/DL Cellist Mariel Roberts’ second solo album, Cartography, provides a stylistically diverse set of pieces that are…