Ojai Music Festival – Friday Evening
The Ojai Music Festival was re-scheduled this year from the traditional June to mid-September as a result of the continuing…
Bernhard Lang – Piano Music (CD Review)
Bernhard Lang Piano Music Wolfram Oettl, piano Kairos Music CD Bernhard Lang (b. 1957) writes in a number of…
Nite Jewel’s No Sun (CD Review
Nite Jewel No Sun Gloriette LP/DL How closely does art imitate life and vice versa? It is a question…
BBC Proms: Lewis, Bray, Arnold, Benjamin
The Prom on August 26 was presented by The BBC Scottish Symphony conducted by Ilan Volkov. It included, along with…
BBC Proms: BBC Singers Feshareki, Burton, Hughes, Williams, Muhly/ Cheneki!
The Proms concert on August 19, presented by the BBC Singers conducted by Sofi Jeannin, was a continuous complex sequence…
Two Wandelweiser Recordings (CD Review)
Sivan Silver-Swartz Untitled 6 Wandelweiser CD EWR 1920 Nigel Dean, violin; Patrick Behnke, Tanner Pfeiffer, viola; Tal Katz, Julian Tedaldi,…
BBC Proms Manchester Collective: Gorecki, Finnis, Eastman, Tabakova, Horowitz/Rattle and LSO: Stravinsky
The Proms concert on August 17 was presented by The Manchester Collective. The group apparently has different manifestations, but in…
City of Tomorrow on New Focus (CD Review)
City of Tomorrow Blow New Focus Records The City of Tomorrow is a woodwind quintet dedicated to 20/21 music,…
Peter Garland – Three Dawns and Bush Radio Calling
A new CD of solo piano music by Peter Garland has been released on the Cold Blue Music label. Two…
BBC Proms August 15, featuring Abel Selaocoe
Although completely recognizable, there are differences in this year’s Proms concerts, most of them what one would expect. One has…