Victoria Bond's Cutting Edge Concerts series presented the Danish ensemble with music of Elena Firsova, Andrew Waggoner, Danish composer Poul Ruders, and Bond herself.
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Music Review: Richard Carrick and Either/Or – ‘The Atlas’
If we don't really have an atlas in the end, we have an idea for one – a set of maps drawn in the shifting sands of sound.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Pianist Adam Żukiewicz on Saint-Saëns, Chopin, and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
The pianist spoke with us about his upcoming concert at Carnegie, his Chopin project, and commissioning new music from Colorado to Eastern Europe.
Read More »Book and Music Reviews: ‘Fleetwood Mac: All the Songs,’ plus the Wildwoods, Joe ‘King’ Oliver, Jim Wurster, Mike Delevante, and Freddie Hubbard
Fleetwood Mac's colorful history embraces lots of little-known stories and recordings, 15 lineups, and more than two dozen studio and live albums.
Read More »Music Review: New Thread Quartet – ‘Saxifraga,’ New Music for Saxophones
Even the most familiar of instruments harbors endless possibilities. Mining them is a task that never ends, and never should.
Read More »Concert Review: Mannes Orchestra with Sandbox Percussion, Stefan Jackiw
Throughout the concert the young musicians showed a high level of collective polish and individual skill to go with their infectious enthusiasm.
Read More »Music Review: Haochen Zhang – ‘Beethoven and Liszt’
Liszt's B minor sonata gives a pianist opportunities to show off blazing technique. But interestingly, Zhang's particular skills allow him to find greater depths of feeling in the piece than I'm used to hearing.
Read More »Music Review: loadbang – ‘A Garden Adorned’
The quartet's new album harvests the creativity of five composers, each marshaling in their own style loadbang's unique sound world.
Read More »Music Reviews: Nighthawk, Smoking Popes, the Seldom Scene, Maria Manousaki, Grey DeLisle, and Johnny Rawls
Nighthawk (Parker Hawkins) is clearly brimming over with musical ideas, most of them excellent. And somehow, his seemingly disparate material all fits comfortably on one CD.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Pianist Haochen Zhang on His New Album of Beethoven and Liszt
Zhang plays Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' and Liszt's B minor Sonata on his latest recording.
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