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 […]
Category Archives: ALBUMS
I Care if You Listen: David Sanford and BMOP’s Black Noise Resonates with History
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 […]
Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2019: the full report | PENTATONE has been awarded Label of the Year
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 […]
Gramophone: Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2019
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 […]
New Sounds: #4302: Beyond Chamber Music
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 […]
Everybody Knows – Single available now
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 […]
Coming Soon – LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood
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 […]
Zeit: “Ein Engel in der Nacht”: Neues von Cornelia Funke
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 […]
Welt: «Ein Engel in der Nacht»: Neues von Cornelia Funke
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 […]
stageandcinema.com – CD Review: ISANG YUN: Sunrise Falling
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 […]
New Music Buff: Album Review – ISANG YUN: Sunrise Falling
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 […]
BBC Music Magazine: Album Review – ANGEL HEART, a music storybook
February 20, 2019
Strings Magazine: Album Review – ISANG YUN: Sunrise Falling
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 […]
Ludwig Van Montreal: WEEK-END | Nos recommandations: concerts, bouffe et autres activités palpitantes – Angel Heart
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. […]
MusicWeb International: Album Review – ISANG YUN: Sunrise Falling
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 […]
The Whole Note – The Listening Room – Album Review – ISANG YUN: Sunrise Falling
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 […]
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