Best of 2021: Andrew Cyrille Quartet (CD Review)
Best of 2021 Andrew Cyrille Quartet The News ECM Records David Virelles, piano; Bill Frisell, guitar; Ben Street, bass; Andrew…
Ojai Music Festival – Timo Andres in Recital
The 8:00 AM Sunday morning concert featured pianist Timo Andres in recital. His first set was from the cycle titled…
Best of 2021: Spektral Quartet Plays Thorvaldsdottir (CD Review)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Enigma EP Spektral Quartet Clara Lyon, Maeve Feinberg, violin; Doyle Armbrust, viola; Russell Rolen, cello Sono Luminus CD,…
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…