Sam Gendel – Uroko (CD Preview)
Sam Gendel’s next LP, blueblue, is out on October 14th via Leaving Records. Today, Leaving has released the album’s first single, Uroko (鱗, fish scales), as a stream. Have a…
Hamelin plays Bolcom’s Rags
William Bolcom – The Complete Rags Marc-André Hamelin Hyperion Records William Bolcom has been an important exponent of the ragtime revival. He helped to mount Scott Joplin’s ragtime opera Treemonisha,…
Vadim Neselovskyi – Odesa (CD Review)
Vadim Neselovskyi Odesa Sunnyside Records Jazz pianist Vadim Neselovskyi was born in Ukraine. He moved to the US to study at Berklee and has since joined its faculty, splitting his…
Bryan Senti and ACME – “Mantra” (Video)
Bryan Senti has shared a video of “Mantra,” the first single off of his forthcoming album Manu, out June 24th via naïve.
Sandrine Piau – Handel Enchantresses (CD Review_
Handel: Enchantresses Sandrine Piau, soprano Les Paladins, Jérôme Correas, director Alpha Classics Soprano Sandrine Piau is a versatile artist who has compellingly performed a wide range of repertoire. Handel has…
Wolfgang Rihm – Jagden und Formen (CD Review)
Wolfgang Rihm Jagden und Formen Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Franck Ollu, conductor BR-Klassik CD Wolfgang Rihm’s hour long orchestra work Jagden und Formen (2008) has its roots in an earlier work,…
Aleksandra Gryka on Kairos (CD Review)
Interialcell Aleksandra Gryka Florian Müller, harpsichord; Klangforum Wien, Joseph Kalitzke, conductor Kairos CD Klangforum Wien is undertaking a series of portrait recordings on Kairos of Polish composers. The first solo…
Vermillion: Kit Downes on ECM (CD Review)
Kit Downes Vermillion Kit Downes, piano; Petter Eldh, double bass; James Maddren, drums ECM Records After listening to Obsidian, Kit Downes’s debut as a leader for ECM, one might justifiably…
Barbara Monk Feldman on Another Timbre (CD Review)
Barbara Monk Feldman Verses GBSR Duo with Mira Benjamin Another Timbre CD Given her association with Morton Feldman, both personal and professional – he was both her spouse and her…
Feldman Late Piano Pieces (CD Review)
Morton Feldman Late Works for Piano For Bunita Marcus, Palais de Mari, Triadic Memories Alfonso Gómez Kairos 3xCD Morton Feldman’s late piano works are totemic structures, influential on a generation…