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 […]
Tag Archives: Bach
The New Yorker: An Emotional Reunion Between Cello and Cellist
September 17, 2018 Issue After fifteen months apart, Matt Haimovitz and his beloved Goffriller cello get reacquainted. On a recent Thursday, Matt Haimovitz, the forty-seven-year-old virtuoso cellist, packed an […]
I Care if You Listen: This week: concerts in New York (June 11, 2018 – June 17, 2018)
June 11, 2018 LPR X: DEERHOOF Deerhoof with Tigue and Subtle Degrees perform as part of Ten Years Together: New Amsterdam Records & Le Poisson Rouge Turn 10. Between sets […]
The Villager: Chelsea Music Festival beckons you to hear, taste, see ‘Bach 333’
June 6, 2018 German composer Johann Sebastian Bach was not afraid to take on one of the most controversial beverages of the 1700s: coffee. Indeed, the master addressed the stimulant […]
MOZART DIVERTIMENTO & Preludes to Bach
Available now! Mozart’s brilliance at the keyboard is well known, but it was his joy in play¬ing the viola – and the musical dialogue and kinship of […]
The Daily Star: Essential Thursdays performances to resume July 13
June 23, 2017 The Roxbury Arts Group’s Essential Thursdays Performance Series will return to the Old School Baptist Church in the Denver-Vega Valley at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 13, with […]
Exclaim.ca: The Genius of Philip Glass performed by the NAC Orchestra, Simone Dinnerstein and Matt Haimovitz
November 27, 2016 “There is no Nobel Prize for Music, so this award is significant to me.” As Philip Glass graced the National Arts Centre Stage Saturday night (November 26) […]
Ottawa Life: More Than Genius Honored as Philip Glass Accepts Glenn Gould Prize
November 27, 2016 All photos by Andre Gagne. What is a genius? That question itched me throughout the The 11th Glenn Gould Prize Awards concert “The Genius of Philip Glass” […]
Ottawa Citizen: Music review: Philip Glass at the National Arts Centre
November 27, 2016 At Southam Hall Reviewed Saturday I’ve sometimes tried to imagine the expression that Brahms or Mahler or Prokofiev would have worn when hearing their music played back […]
The Salt Lake Tribune: There’s room for cello on the musical menu at the U. of Utah
October 3, 2016 Courtesy | Steph Mackinnon Genre-busting cellist Matt Haimovitz, who will give a recital, a master class and a couple of pop-up performances at the University of […]
The New York Times: Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel.
August 19, 2016 “Composers have always wanted to fondle the pieces that they love,” John Adams, of “Nixon in China” fame, said in a recent interview. They have long borrowed […]
Music for Several Instruments: Bach the Terminal Point
August 1, 2016 Heitor Villa-Lobos called Bach “…a kind of universal folkloric source, rich and profound.” He mined a particularly rich Bachian vein throughout his career, as have so many […]
Broadway World: Matt Haimovitz’s OVERTURES TO BACH Set for Release This Month with PENTATONE Oxingale
August 1, 2016 Matt Haimovitz’s continuously-evolving and intense engagement with the Bach Cello Suites reaches a new zenith with Overtures to Bach, six new commissions that anticipate and reflect each […]
Merker: Cello Suiten nach Anna Magdalena
November 21, 2015 J. S. BACH – The Cello Suites according to Magdalena– Matt Haimovitz; PENTATONE Oxingale Series 2 CD von Dr. Ingobert Waltenberger Der neugierige und vor allem auch als Vorkämpfer […]
Gramophone Magazine – Album Review: JS BACH Six Solo Cello Suites, BWV1007-1012
“Haimovitz brings a beguiling lightness to the line that propels the listener from the sunny serenity of the Prelude to the moto perpetuo of the final Gigue, despite the deceptively complicated harmonic structure of that Suite as a whole. This, in turn, allows the almost preternatural control he displays in the Sarabande of the Fifth Suite to unravel it with all the desolation of a melodic line that has no hint of that previous complexity, and create the impact it should – as a profound statement of emotional isolation.”
Strings Magazine: Matt Haimovitz Returns to the Solo Suites and Intimate Venues
Given his commitment to connecting with his audience, Haimovitz chose a unique way to share this passion with his listeners. He has commissioned preludes to the Six Solo Suites, created by contemporary composers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. “It’s a way to bring these suites into the 21st century,” he says, “to have living, breathing composers grapple with the materials, Bach’s musical building blocks, and find their own take on it.”
The six composers bringing contemporary vitality to Bach are Philip Glass, Luna Pearl Woolf, Du Yun, Vijay Iyer, Roberto Sierra, and Mohammed Fairouz. Haimovitz has encouraged them to draw on folk melodies, just as Bach did in his day. As we spoke, the pieces were still being written, and Haimovitz’s excitement and anticipation is contagious.
Oxingale Records 