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 […]
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 […]
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 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.”
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 […]
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 […]
Bertrand Chamayou (pictured above) has won Gramophone‘s 2019 Recording of the Year Award for his album of Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concertos Nos 2 and 5 with the French National Orchestra and Emanuel […]
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 […]
November 26, 2019 Leonard Cohen’s Polemic Masterpiece in a Kaleidoscopic Re-Imagining For Three Voices and Cello Composer Luna Pearl Woolf boldly reconfigures Leonard Cohen’s darkly ironic “Everybody Knows” for three […]
November 26, 2019 Gripping, harrowing and humorous, music for choir, solo voices and instruments by Luna Pearl Woolf comes together in a new composer portrait album due out on the […]
March 28, 2019 Berlin (dpa) – Wenn man zu ihrem neuen Hörbuch wegdöst, findet Cornelia Funke das vollkommen in Ordnung. Auf «Ein Engel in der Nacht» sind «Lullabys» zu hören, neue und […]
March 28, 2019 The soprano Lisa Delan and the composer Luna Pearl Woolf thought of something they could put on when they brought the children to bed. Booksellers could describe […]
March 23, 2019 SUNRISE ISN’T THE ONLY THING THAT’S FALLING;IT SOUNDS LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD This is my first time hearing the music of Isang Yun, the South […]
February 27, 2019 2018 marks the 100th birth anniversary of Korea’s best known composer, Isang Yun (1918-1995). His work has received many performances and recordings but he is not exactly […]
February 20, 2019
February 19, 2019 “Haimovitz’ performance of the monologues is utterly convincing, bringing the morose darkness of the composer’s writing to life … Enthusiasts of mid-century avant-garde music will enjoy adding […]