Classical CD Review: Meeting of the Spirits
July 2017 “Meeting of the Spirits” – jazz milestones re-imagined for a big band of cellos.PENTATONE SACD 518§ 659 TT: 51:06BUY NOW FROM AMAZON Matt Haimovitz is on the cutting […]
July 2017 “Meeting of the Spirits” – jazz milestones re-imagined for a big band of cellos.PENTATONE SACD 518§ 659 TT: 51:06BUY NOW FROM AMAZON Matt Haimovitz is on the cutting […]
May 3, 2019 In relation to music, noise occupies a particularly complex position in the history of African American musical cultures. Historically, white listeners musically and culturally disenfranchised enslaved African […]
October 16, 2019 All of the winners from this year’s Gramophone Classical Music Awards At the end of an electrifying evening of music-making and heartfelt speeches, Gramophone‘s Editor-in-Chief James Jolly closed […]
Bertrand Chamayou (pictured above) has won Gramophone‘s 2019 Recording of the Year Award for his album of Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 5 with the French National Orchestra and Emanuel […]
November 26, 2019 Listen to music that pushes the idea of chamber music (technically a small ensemble, playing one to a part) with combinations of keyboards and strings, as well […]
November 26, 2019 Leonard Cohen’s Polemic Masterpiece in a Kaleidoscopic Re-Imagining For Three Voices and Cello Composer Luna Pearl Woolf boldly reconfigures Leonard Cohen’s darkly ironic “Everybody Knows” for three […]
November 26, 2019 Gripping, harrowing and humorous, music for choir, solo voices and instruments by Luna Pearl Woolf comes together in a new composer portrait album due out on the […]
March 28, 2019 Berlin (dpa) – Wenn man zu ihrem neuen Hörbuch wegdöst, findet Cornelia Funke das vollkommen in Ordnung. Auf «Ein Engel in der Nacht» sind «Lullabys» zu hören, neue und […]
March 28, 2019 The soprano Lisa Delan and the composer Luna Pearl Woolf thought of something they could put on when they brought the children to bed. Booksellers could describe […]
March 23, 2019 SUNRISE ISN’T THE ONLY THING THAT’S FALLING;IT SOUNDS LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD This is my first time hearing the music of Isang Yun, the South […]
February 27, 2019 2018 marks the 100th birth anniversary of Korea’s best known composer, Isang Yun (1918-1995). His work has received many performances and recordings but he is not exactly […]
February 20, 2019
February 19, 2019 “Haimovitz’ performance of the monologues is utterly convincing, bringing the morose darkness of the composer’s writing to life … Enthusiasts of mid-century avant-garde music will enjoy adding […]
February 15, 2019 Vous vous demandez quoi faire en fin de semaine (à part pelleter)? Voici nos suggestions musicales et extra musicales pour attraper un peu de bonheur et décrocher. […]
February 7, 2019 Isang YUN (1917-1995)Sunrise FallingCello Concerto (1976) [30:32]Interludium A for solo piano (1982) [11:28]Glissées for solo cello (1970) [16:05]Fanfare and Memorial (1979) for orchestra [16:33}Violin Concerto No 1 (1981) [40:15]Kontraste. Two […]
January 29, 2019 Isang Yun: Sunrise Falling is a centennial commemoration of the uncompromising life and music of Korean-German composer Isang Yun (1917–1995). Maestro Dennis Russell Davies, long a Yun collaborator […]