The Whole Note Editor’s Corner : PRIMAVERA I: the wind
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 […]
Tag Archives: Matt Haimovitz
Broadway World: Cellist Matt Haimovitz Announces THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT
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 […]
LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood Nominated for 2021 GRAMMY Award
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.
MON AMI, Mon amour makes CBC Music’s ‘Canada’s best classical albums of the year’
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.
Grammy Nomination for LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood
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.
New Digital-Only Release: Cello JAZZ w/Matt Haimovitz and Friends
“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: Fire and Flood
“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.”
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
