Duo Gazzana on ECM (CD Review)
Duo Gazzana Kõrvits/Schumann/Grieg ECM Records Sisters Natascia Gazzana, violinist, and Raffaella Gazzana, pianist, have recorded a number of releases for ECM that program a combination of great romantic chamber…
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Carnegie Hall: Highlights of contemporary music in the 2022-2023 season
Ironically, the first concert of flutist Claire Chase’s reign as Richard and Barbara Debs Creative Chair at Carnegie Hall in the 2022-23 season focuses on a dead composer. In honor…
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TIME:SPANS 2022 – Interview with Thomas Fichter
In the doldrums of summer, it seems like 80 percent of the population in New York City is away, presumably biding their time in cooler and/or more restful locales. That…
Gity Razaz – The Strange Highway (CD Review)
Gity Razaz The Strange Highway Francesca de Pasquale, violin; Katharine Kang Litton, viola; Ingbal Segev, cello; Scott Cuellar, piano All-American Cello Band; Metropolist Ensemble, Andrew Cyr, conductor BIS Records…
Psappha Commissions (CD Review)
Psappha Commissions Psappha, 2022 Contemporary ensemble Psappha has commissioned both emerging and established composers. This recording chronicles works the group has brought to life by John Casken, Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade,…
Bozzini Quartet plays Bryn Harrison (CD Review)
Bryn Harrison Three Descriptions of Place and Movement Quatuor Bozzini Huddersfield Contemporary Records, 2022 Composer Bryn Harrison writes about temporal organization and experience in music. Coauthored with Richard Glover…
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The Parker Quartet premieres Jeremy Gill’s “Motherwhere”
April the First proved a propitious date for the New York Classical Players’ much anticipated program featuring a new collaboration – and premiere – with the Parker Quartet. In the…
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Bang on a Can Long Play Festival 2022: An Interview with David Lang
Two years ago, I was editing a 2020 interview with the composer David Lang about the new multi-day festival that Bang on a Can planned for that spring, Long Play,…
Abrahamsen’s Schnee (CD Review)
Hans Abrahamsen Schnee Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds, conductor DaCapo This is the second recording of Hans Abrahamsen’s Schnee (‘Snow,’ 2008), an hourlong imaginative ensemble work populated by idiosyncratic…
Chris Votek – Memories of a Shadow
Microfest Records has recently released Memories of a Shadow, a new CD by Chris Votek. The liner notes state that Votek is “…an innovative composer refracting Indian Classical music through…