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Josquin 500 Part Two The Josquin Legacy Gesualdo Six Harmonia Mundi CD In Principio De Labyrintho, Walter Tesolin Baryton CD Josquin Desprez The Renaissance Master – Sacred Music and Chansons…

Best of 2021: Recordings by Philip Blackburn and Chris Campbell   Philip Blackburn Justinian Intonations Neuma CD   Chris Campbell Orison Innova LP     Both Philip Blackburn and Chris…

Sequenza 21 Best of 2021   Craig Taborn Shadowplay ECM Records   I first became aware of pianist Craig Taborn in the early aughts, writing about him for (dearly departed)…

Iron Orchid Ning Yu and David Bird New Focus Recordings   Composer and electronic musician David Bird’s work Iron Orchid enlists pianist Ning Yu as a collaborator. Bird’s electronics often…

Sequenza 21 – Best of 2021   Olivier Messiaen Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus Alfonso Gómez, piano Kairos CD   In 1944, Olivier Messiaen wrote a recital length work (about 2…

Best of 2021: Varèse, Ligeti, Lutosławski, Baldini on Centaur  Varèse, Ligeti, Lutosławski, Baldini Munich Radio Orchestra; UC Davis Symphony Orchestra Miranda Cuckson, violin; Maximilian Haft, violin Christian Baldini, conductor Centaur…

Best of 2021 Andrew Cyrille Quartet The News  ECM Records David Virelles, piano; Bill Frisell, guitar; Ben Street, bass; Andrew Cyrille, drums and percussion   Andrew Cyrille is now an…

Anna Thorvaldsdottir Enigma EP Spektral Quartet Clara Lyon, Maeve Feinberg, violin; Doyle Armbrust, viola; Russell Rolen, cello Sono Luminus CD, 2021   Enigma, the first string quartet by Icelandic composer…

Bernhard Lang Piano Music Wolfram Oettl, piano Kairos Music CD   Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) writes in a number of different media, from chamber music to theatre works. His solo…

Nite Jewel No Sun Gloriette LP/DL   How closely does art imitate life and vice versa? It is a question that has been debated since antiquity. Ramona Gonzalez, who records…