December 6, 2017 L’année 2017 tire à sa fin et l’équipe d’ICI Musique s’est arrêtée un moment pour faire le subjectif exercice de lister les 50 meilleurs albums de l’année […]
October 27, 2017 The Strad Issue: October 2017 Description: Curious bookends that meditate on the end of time Musicians: Jonathan Crow (violin) Matt Haimovitz (cello) David Krakauer (clarinet) Geoffrey Burleson (piano) Socalled (electronics) […]
October 15, 2017 “Cellist Matt Haimovitz calls playing the Quatuor is a spiritual experience and listening to this performance is nothing short of that.” Our release of Akoka with David Krakauer, Matt Haimovitz, Jonathan Crow, Geoffrey […]
PUBLIÉ LE VENDREDI 26 MAI 2017 L’altiste et chroniqueur Frédéric Lambert parle des melleures parutions et des concerts à venir en musique classique. Il est question de l’œuvre phare d’Olivier […]
June 1, 2017 “Recorded live, AKOKA drives home the gravity and impact of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time and affirms its relevance in the 21st century. As the […]
JUNO Award Nomination for AKOKA: Reframing Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time
December 26, 2014 Having made clear my discontent with the nominations for the 57th annual GRAMMY awards, I feel more than obliged to recognize that this was actually a rather good […]
April 2, 2014 Yesterday Oxingale released a new recording with a somewhat intimidating title, Akoka: Reframing Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. This title definitely deserves points (and probably […]
The centerpiece of the CD is a shatteringly beautiful performance of Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time,” a deeply spiritual piece of music written while Messiaen was a prisoner in a German POW camp. The clarinetist for whom he wrote the piece was a fellow prisoner, an Algerian Jew named Henri Akoka.
March 6, 2013 “Vilna Poems / Akoka: The End of Time / In Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” read the title sheet of the Jewish […]
October 27, 2009 Matt Haimovitz is loose in Minneapolis again. The thirtysomething avant-cellist, equally at ease in clubs and concert halls, was last here in January of ’08 for performances […]
