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Music Review: Neil Young – ‘Bluenote Café (NYAPS Series)’
The hits just keep on coming from Neil Young's Archives Performance Series, and in many ways, Bluenote Café may be the best volume yet. If nothing else, it is certainly among the most interesting.
Read More »Interview: Pianist Yoonie Han on Interpreting New Compositions ‘Gloriously’ Dedicated to Her
How does a pianist work with living composers as they write new works for her? Find out in this fascinating interview with Yoonie Han.
Read More »DVD Review: Rage Against the Machine – ‘Live at Finsbury Park’
This is an absolutely top-notch concert DVD and an absolute must for any fan of the band.
Read More »Music Review: Halie Loren – ‘Butterfly Blue’
The album is an intelligent mix of standards and original material.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Tania Stavreva – ‘Kaleidoscope Rhythms!’ – Music of Chopin, Mompou, Vladigerov and More (NYC 11/15/15)
Stavreva champions composers from her native Bulgaria, plays a mean Chopin, and is unafraid to perform her own works of rumbling, percussive intensity.
Read More »Music Review: Sinne Eeg and Thomas Fonnesbæk – ‘Eeg – Fonnesbæk’
There is a purity in their stripped down performance, an infectious emotional honesty; this is a duo that works.
Read More »Concert Review: Chiara String Quartet and Simone Dinnerstein – Piano Quintets: Brahms and Friedman (NYC Nov. 13)
Jefferson Friedman's sharply modernistic but accessible new 'The Heart Wakes Into' paired nicely with Brahms's Quintet in F minor at the Metropolitan Museum.
Read More »Concert Review: Saint Thomas Choir and Orchestra of St. Luke’s – Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ and Haydn’s ‘Missa in Angustiis’ (NYC Nov. 12 2015)
Mozart's unearthly achievement with his unfinished 'Requiem' was on glorious display.
Read More »Music Review: Quadriga Consort – ‘Winter’s Delights – Early Christmas Music and Carols from the British Isles’
A festive collection of early Christmas music that will soothe, cheer, and promote good will.
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