A selection from the 76 pieces of Kwon's "America/Beautiful" project showed the composers' vast range of styles and approaches.
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Concert Review: Simone Dinnerstein, Baroklyn, Concora Play Bach and Philip Glass at the Naumburg Bandshell
One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.
Read More »Music Review: Ana-Marija Markovina – Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Complete Solo Piano Works Vol. 1
Fanny Hensel, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, composed some 450 works. And it isn't enough to say that her music is as skillfully composed as that of her male peers. Like theirs, it has a distinctive voice (or voices).
Read More »Concert Review: Soprano Liv Redpath and Pianist Harry Rylance – Chansons of Love
Redpath's wonderful control of shifts in mood and register charmed and impressed in French chansons by Poulenc, Debussy, Fauré and Messaien.
Read More »Music Review: Pianist Ann DuHamel – ‘Prayers for a Feverish Planet: New Music about Climate Change, Vol. 1’
Works that incorporate organic sounds from outside the piano make some of the deepest impressions.
Read More »Music Review: Eric Chasalow – ‘…arching, reaching, breathless’ – Music for Strings
The man-machine duality of a soloist performing alongside a recording has what in the pre-robotic, pre-AI age we might have called a futuristic quality. Today it touches on the "uncanny valley" effect.
Read More »Concert Review: ‘From Formosa’ – Taiwan Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble
The Taiwan Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble and Taiwu Ballads Troupe vocal ensemble unveiled a panoply of fascinating, mostly Taiwan-rooted music that incorporated Western classical, contemporary avant-garde, and Indigenous music.
Read More »Concert Review: Curtis Chamber Orchestra
The breakdown was once again romantic, sweet, but this time also tense and subdued, giving a sense that a lot of potential energy lurked within.
Read More »I Shall Be Released: My Chemical Romance, Neil Diamond, AleeN ROSE (Daughters of Willie Nelson & Leon Russell), Fanny Mendelssohn’s Complete Piano Works
Amy Lee Nelson, daughter of Willie Nelson, and Tina Rose Bridges, daughter of Leon Russell, have released their first single as newly-formed duo AleeN ROSE.
Read More »Music Reviews: Gwendoline Blondeel and Quito Gato with ‘Amor Eterno’; ORA Singers, ‘Songs of Angels’
French soprano Gwendoline Blondeel's incandescent voice embodies warmth as well as reserve, excitement but also resignation – emotions across the gamut.
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