Mogwai: “As the Love Continues” (CD Review)
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 full…
Attacca Quartet – Real Life (CD Review)
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 is…
Martin Suckling on NMC (CD Review)
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 by…
Matt Evans – touchless (CD Review)
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 In…
Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion (CD Review)
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 The last…
Sergio Merce, “En lugar de pensar” (CD Review)
Sergio Merce En lugar de pensar (Instead of thinking) Wandelweiser CD “The name of the album is about this feeling that I have. I believe that playing music is a…
Chaya Czernowin – Heart Chamber (DVD Review)
Chaya Czernowin Heart Chamber Naxos DVD Patrizia Ciofi, soprano; Dietrich Henschel, baritone; Noa Frenkel, contralto; Terry Wey, countertenor; Frauke Aulbert, vocal artist Deutsche Oper Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke, conductor Chaya Czernowin’s…
Ian Pace Plays Ferneyhough and Yeats (CD Review)
Brian Ferneyhough Complete Piano Music Ian Pace, piano (Ben Smith, piano on Sonata for Two Pianos) Metier CD Marc Yeats The Anatomy of Melancholy Ian Pace, piano Prima Facie CD…
Moonbow (CD Review)
Gunnar Andreas Kristinsson Moonbow Sono Luminus CD Caput Ensemble Icelandic composer Gunnar Andreas Kristinsson’s second CD, Moonbow, presents a selection of pieces written during the past decade for sinfonietta and…
Simple Music by Giya Kancheli
Giya Kancheli Simple Music Jenny Lin, piano; Guy Klucevsek, accordion Steinway and Sons CD Giya Kancheli died in 2019, leaving behind an imposing catalog that included a number of late…