Rhapsody: MATT HAIMOVITZ’S ADVENTUROUS CELLO
August 21, 2015 It’s easy (too easy) to think of any classical artist who is covering a pop song as a musician who is engaged in a little bit of […]
Tag Archives: Matt Haimovitz
Primephonic: To Inspire, To Create, To Engage and To Empower
August 18, 2015 On this day in 1920, women were guaranteed the vote in the USA, which, when finally ratified by the state of Tennessee, led to a majority – […]
Performing Arts Monterey Bay: Cabrillo Festival, Part 2
August 18, 2015 THE TOUGH THING about new music is making it memorable. This means providing enough intellectual structure—architecture—so that the listener can remember it after the fact. While I […]
Second Inversion: ALBUM REVIEW: ORBIT: Music for Solo Cello (1945-2014)
Over the course of three discs, Haimovitz takes the listener on a musical odyssey through time and space, from minimalism to maximalism, tonal to atonal, folk to avant-garde, abstract to narrative, and everything in between.
Arts SF: SANTA CRUZ SPRINGS TO LIFE With Cabrillo’s Contemporary Orchestral Sounds
August 17, 2015 SANTA CRUZ, CA—The final weekend of the Cabrillo Festival is inevitably invigorating, with one new orchestral piece almost atop the other, sometimes with the ink barely dry. […]
AllMusic: Review of ORBIT: Music for Solo Cello (1945-2014)
August 14, 2015 AllMusic Rating: 4.5 / 5 stars On this 2015 compilation of contemporary solo cello music, Matt Haimovitz presents a diverse program of past performances, drawn from his […]
Thought Catalog: Music For Writers: Matt Haimovitz’s Cello Solos Go Into ‘Orbit’
August 13, 2015 Four Hours: ‘A Small Part Of The Repertoire’ You could do worse than play a 1710 cello made by the Venetian luthier Matteo Goffriller, but what Matt […]
Q2 Music: Matt Haimovitz Channels Vast Dynamic Range in 4-Hour Retrospective, ‘Orbit’
August 10, 2015 A Q2 Music Album of the Week Selection. “Matt Haimovitz – Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945-2014)” (Pentatone Music) Living Music. Living Composers.More I’ve got a cranium […]
WQXR Q2 Music: Matt Haimovitz Channels Vast Dynamic Range in 4-Hour Retrospective, 'Orbit'
August 10, 2015 I’ve got a cranium full of Matt Haimovitz at the moment, and have not yet reached capacity. Clocking in at 3.75 hours, the cello soloist’s latest release, […]
Volkskrant: Haimovitz is het soort muzikant dat elk stuk spannend maakt
August 5, 2015 4/5 stars “a mighty triple CD with contemporary music for solo cello, is actually more of a quest…Orbit is named for the late and remarkably successful […]
The Millbrook Independent: Matt Haimovitz and the Pendericki String Quartet at Music Mountain.
August 2, 2015 “There’s no such thing as perfection” may be a valid observation, but on Sunday afternoon a full house at Music Mountain was offered proof to the contrary. […]
The Boston Globe: Matt Haimovitz, period
July 9, 2015 Sometimes an artist’s most meaningful projects arise by chance, in everyday interactions, rather than through any grand plan. So, it seems, was the case with the intrepid […]
Audiophile Audition: BEETHOVEN, Period. Review
Sensitive, even soulful, playing by Haimovitz and crisp articulation of the piano part on a mellifluous Broadwood of Beethoven’s day.
WQXR: In-Studio: Matt Haimovitz & Christopher O'Riley Play Beethoven & Rachmaninoff
April 15, 2015 The cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O’Riley are quick to emphasize that their recent venture into Baroque period instruments isn’t some fusty or antiquated pursuit. The […]
New York Classical Review: Haimovitz and O’Riley team up for intimate and revelatory Beethoven
“Hearing these two gifted musicians working together with such pleasure and mutual understanding was like seeing two people collaborate on a challenging crossword puzzle, at high speed—fascinating in the moment, and, once the mind caught up to what they were doing, uncanny and dazzling.”
Montreal Gazette: BEETHOVEN, Period. Review
“one of the best recordings of the year” … “full of subtle beauties” … “full feeling and remarkable intelligence.”
Oxingale Records 