Best of 2018: Orchestral CDs
Best of 2018 – Orchestral CDs In ictu oculi Kenneth Hesketh BBC Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Christoph Mathias…
Best of 2018 – Orchestral CDs with Voices
Best of 2018: Orchestral CDs with Voices Requiem John Harbison Nashville Symphony Chorus and Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero,…
Perle Orchestral Music on Bridge (CD Review)
George Perle Orchestral Music 1965-1987 Jay Campbell, cello Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot, conductor George Perle Vol. 4, Bridge Records 9499…
Seattle Symphony unveils David Lang’s symphony without a hero
David Lang’s symphony without a hero received its premiere on February 8/10 by its commissioner, Seattle Symphony and Music Director…
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Best Orchestra Portrait CD: BMOP Plays Peterson
Wayne Peterson Transformations Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor; PRISM Quartet BMOP/sound 1053 Composer Wayne Peterson (b. 1927)…
Composer Carson Cooman (Interview)
Interview with Carson Cooman Sequenza 21: The latest CD of your compositions, Liminal on Divine Art, features three works, a…
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The Changing Same: Numinous New Music from Joseph C. Phillips, Jr.
If you’re a fan of new music, be it “indie-classical” or whatever it’s being labeled this week, then you must…
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Cage and Beyond
Just before intermission of the opening concert of the Beyond Cage Festival on October 22, I pulled out my iPhone…
The Philadelphia Orchestra: 2.0
Last Thursday evening, just before the lights dimmed at the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall, the audience purred in anticipation of…
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Ruggles: An American Rarity
If you were having a conversation with fellow music lovers about the great American composers, Carl Ruggles would not be…