Friday, June 28, 2019

John Luther Adams, Become Desert, Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot

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Become Ocean (2013)  by John Luther Adams struck me as one of the most significant orchestral works of our decade. It won a Grammy. I gave...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Brooks, The Passion, Bang On A Can All Stars & Contemporaneous, David Bloom

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From composer Jeffrey Brooks and the Bang On A Can folks comes a major Minimalist music event called The Passion (Cantaloupe 21146). It is...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Winged Creatures and Other Works for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra, Demarre & Anthony McGill, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, Allen Tinkham

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Today there is an interesting program of two World Premier Recordings of concerted works for flute, clarinet and orchestra plus two earlie...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Rand Steiger, Coalescence Cycle, Volume 1: Music for Soloists and Electronics, International Contemporary Ensemble

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One can never be sure from one month to the next exactly what music one will hear. So an open-work world-mind is a healthy one to maintain...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Alan Griffiths, Rare View, Volume Two, Cello, Piano and Violin

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I covered the music of Alan Griffiths a while back on these pages (see the entry from February 28 of this year for that review article.) H...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Himmelborgen, Uranienborg Vokalensemble, Kare Nordstoga, Elisabeth Holt

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The Uranienborg Vokalensemble, out of Oslo, is an exceedingly beautiful sounding chamber choir under the direction of Elisabeth Holt.   Hi...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Michael Colgrass, Side By Side, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose

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Charles Ives you can look to as the father of disparate conjoinings and aural collages when Modern North American composition styles devel...