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Best Chamber Recording 2017

December 31, 2017 Christian Carey

Terry Riley and Stefano Scodanibbio The Dark Queen Mantra Del Sol String Quartet; Gyan Riley, guitar Sono Luminus On this Sono Luminus CD, Terry Riley’s chamber works are superlatively performed…

Best of Boston CD Review Conductors Contemporary Classical Criticism Critics File Under? Orchestral Recordings Review San Francisco Saxophone

Best Orchestra Portrait CD: BMOP Plays Peterson

December 30, 2017 Christian Carey

Wayne Peterson Transformations Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor; PRISM Quartet BMOP/sound 1053 Composer Wayne Peterson (b. 1927) served as one of his generation’s fixtures on the West Coast…

Best of CD Review Experimental Music File Under? Guitar Post Modern

Best Rock Recording 2017: Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Luciferian Towers

December 29, 2017 Christian Carey

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Luciferian Towers Constellation CD/LP/DL Canadian instrumental post-rock leftist collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor brings something old and something new to the musical anti-fascist fray on Luciferian…

Best of CD Review Contemporary Classical Drone Experimental Music File Under? Piano

Best Drone Recording 2017: Lee Plays Gibson

December 28, 2017 Christian Carey

Randy Gibson The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield 16 VIII 10 (Kansas City) Andrew Lee, amplified piano…

CD Review Contemporary Classical File Under? Los Angeles Opera

Best Contemporary Opera Recording 2017 – Andriessen’s ‘Theatre of the World’

December 27, 2017 Christian Carey

Louis Andriessen Theatre of the World Leigh Melrose, Lindsey Kesselman, Marcel Beekman, Steven van Watermeulen, Mattijs van de Woerd, Cristina Zavalloni, vocal soloists Los Angeles Philharmonic, Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor…

Best of CD Review File Under? Pop Recordings

Best Pop Recording of 2017: Björk – Utopia

December 21, 2017 Christian Carey

Utopia Björk One Little Indian Björk’s latest album is her longest (clocking in at 72 minutes) and her most daring yet. On past recordings, cadres of female musicians with fierce…

CD Review File Under? jazz

Vijay Iyer Sextet – Far From Over

December 1, 2017 Christian Carey

Vijay Iyer Sextet Far From Over ECM 2581 Steve Lehman, Alto Saxophone; Graham Haynes, Cornet, Flugelhorn, Electronics; Stephen Crump, Double Bass; Tyshawn Sorey, Drums; Vijay Iyer, Piano, Electric Piano; Mark…

CD Review CDs Contemporary Classical early music File Under? Guitar Recordings

Maderna and Berio on ECM (CD Review

November 14, 2017 Christian Carey

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…

Best Chamber Recording 2017

Best Orchestra Portrait CD: BMOP Plays Peterson

Best Rock Recording 2017: Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Luciferian Towers

Best Drone Recording 2017: Lee Plays Gibson

Best Contemporary Opera Recording 2017 – Andriessen’s ‘Theatre of the World’

Best Pop Recording of 2017: Björk – Utopia

Vijay Iyer Sextet – Far From Over

Maderna and Berio on ECM (CD Review

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