Friday, September 25, 2020

Ives, Hauer, Stravinsky, Pepples, Satie, In Memoriam Paul Zukofsky; Aaron Likness, Andrew Zhou, Pianos

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  The virtual menagerie of musical fare that becomes available to a music reviewer like myself is in the times we now occupy not as near lim...
Friday, September 18, 2020

John Luther Adams, Lines Made By Walking, JACK Quartet

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  John Luther Adams over time has impressed me as one of the singular voices, one of the true originals in so-called Minimalism and Radical ...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

PEP, Piano and Erhu Project, Volume Three, Nicole Ge Li and Corey Hamm

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  A most unusual and rewarding Vancouver-based duo called PEP, or The Piano and Erhu Project, returns for a Volume Three (DMR Discs TK 474)....
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Larry Polansky, These are the Generations

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It is sometimes easy to forget but every composer's oeuvre in an avid listener's cycle came to present itself to her/him more or ...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Gyorgi Ligeti, Desordre, Etudes Pour Piano, Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano, Eric Huebner

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Desordre is the title given to pianist Eric Huebner's  album of Ligeti works (New Focus Recordings FCR 269). So then, "disorder.&...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Quinsin Nachoff, Pivotal Arc, Nathalie Bonin, Molinari String Quartet

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Musical creativity when going right is like a liquid that flows outward and downward from a starting point, filling in where there is spac...

Ian Venables, Requiem, Gloucester Cathedral Choir, Jonathan Hope, Adrian Partington

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Living composer Ian Venables composed his Requiem (Somm Recordings 0618) in several stages between 2017 and 2018, initially at the request...