Originally posted on Winnipeg’s Classic 107. Read the original article here. Written by Chris Wolf Monday, Oct 23 2023, 9:04 AM On September 29th the Pentatone Oxingale Record Label released a recording of […]
August 16, 2016 Der Cellomeister Matt Haimovitz gehört zu den emphatischen Bachsuiten-Spielern, er hat sie schon in Nachtclubs und Kaufhäusern präsentiert. Jetzt bietet er sechs “Overtüres” zeitgenössischer Komponisten zu den […]
Few composers have broader stylistic reach. But on a new album, “A Prayer for Lester Bowie,” he makes it all cohere. By Seth Colter Walls Oct. 15, 2021 It’s not a […]
Written by: David Olds June 30, 2021 One of the greatest challenges of editing DISCoveries is always how to do justice to as many of the fine recordings that come our way […]
Written by: Alexa Criscitiello May 17, 2021 The new digital album features the first fourteen of 81 new pieces written for Haimovitz. On June 11, 2021, multi-Grammy nominated cellist Matt […]
Par EMMANUEL BERNIER Consacré à la musique de chambre française du début du XXe siècle, l’album MON AMI, Mon amour réunit la pianiste Mari Kodama et le violoncelliste Matt Haimovitz, respectivement associés aux […]
Today, LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood has been nominated for a 2021 GRAMMY Award in the category of Best Classical Compendium. The composer-portrait album, released in February, encompasses 25 years of dramatic vocal and choral works and hauntingly re-imagined Leonard Cohen masterpieces by the innovative American-Canadian composer.
Has there ever been a year during which new albums were as vital to our survival as they were in 2020? CBC Music picks Canada best classical albums of the year, from solo piano to opera and everything in between.
With concert halls shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the arrival of new music – along with quarantine videos and live streams – was the closest we got this year to the thrill of live performance. And while records will never replace the concert experience, we’re grateful to Canada’s classical musicians for the profusion of new music they continue to release for our enjoyment.
Luna Pearl Woolf: Fire and Flood, a Pentatone Oxingale Series recording, has been nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award in the category of Best Classical Compendium. The composer-portrait album, released in February, encompasses 25 years of dramatic vocal and choral works and hauntingly re-imagined Leonard Cohen masterpieces by the innovative American-Canadian composer.
Last Week Intermezzo Host Chris Wolf had an opportunity to chat with cellist Matt Haimovitz about this marvelous new recording of French music for cello.
“Haimovitz sets his cello free in a daring and dazzling jazz recital…“ Matt Haimovitz’s multi-faceted cello knocks down musical boundaries while scaling emotions from darkness to joy in Cello JAZZ, […]
“Luna Pearl Woolf trains a zoom lens on the collective experience, sometimes plunging us right into the midst of destruction and anarchy only to pull back, in one swoop, to a clear-eyed plane of compassion.”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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