Classical CD Review: DAVID SANFORD: Black Noise
March 1, 2019 American composer David Sanford (b. Pittsburgh 1963) came from a highly musical family. He always had a keen interest in jazz, big and music, and played the […]
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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 […]
Classical Modern Music: David Sanford, Black Noise, Matt Haimovitz, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose
May 17, 2019 Afro-American composer David Sanford shows a musical Modernism with a healthy admixture of “Jazz” influences on his recent recording of orchestra works Black Noise (BMOP Sound 1063). The three […]
BMOP: DAVID SANFORD: BLACK NOISE ON CLASSICAL CD CHOICE
November 14, 2019 ALBUM REVIEW | David Sanford: Black NoiseClassical CD ChoiceBarry Forshaw Not for the casual listener, but those with a taste for the adventurous might give this unusual […]
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 […]
Hollywood Soapbox: INTERVIEW: Matt Haimovitz explores connections between Glass, Beethoven
November 17, 2019 When cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Navah Perlman take the stage at the State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, today, Nov. 17, they will take part in […]
Patch: A Classical Season Celebration
November 11, 2019 An exciting performance by cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Navah Perlman, featuring pieces from Beethoven, Philip Glass, and Corigliano. State Theatre New Jersey presentsMatt Haimovitz and Navah […]
WOSU: Cellist Matt Haimovitz In The Classical 101 Studio
November 20, 2019 You could say Matt Haimovitz does things differently. He abandoned the typical career of a classical cellist early on. Since then, Haimovitz, now on the faculty of McGill […]
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 […]
Times Union: Classnotes: Six degrees of fresh Bach appreciation
November 18, 2019 Ask any cellist and they’ll have a unique insight or personal story about the six suites for unaccompanied cello by J.S. Bach. A few years ago Ashley […]
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 […]
The Strad: ARD competition invites 64 cellists to Munich for 2019 competition
July 25, 2019 The Bavarian Radio competition offers cash prizes and numerous performance opportunities The 2019 ARD International Music Competition offers four categories: cello, clarinet, bassoon and percussion. In each […]
Prince William Living: Around Town – Coming in September and October to the Hylton Center
August 23, 2019 The Hylton Performing Arts Center kicks off its 2019/20 season with an exciting and diverse lineup of artists and ensembles. The Hylton Presents season starts on a hot note featuring the […]
La Presse: MUSIQUE BLOC-NOTES – À LA DÉCOUVERTE D’ISANG YUN AVEC 14 VIOLONCELLISTES
April 17, 2019 MUSIQUE BLOC-NOTESLes rendez-vous du mélomane CLASSIQUE TROIS RENDEZ-VOUS D’AVRIL AVEC MOZART ET L’OSM L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) marque son retour de tournée européenne par trois programmes distincts, […]
