Not everything can be grasped in a single setting as we all have learned over time. For New Music these days it has never been more true. It used to be at times that you more or less knew...
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), as many readers will ,know. was one of the 20th centuries most original and poetic of composers for the piano. His was a voice of great color and poise. He gives the co...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2024/03/vincent-larderet-ravel-complete-works.html
Brazilian born classical guitar virtuoso Plinio Fernandes returns with more sparkling fare for solo classical guitar, this time flourishing within the Bachian strain with works initially wri...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2024/03/plinio-fernandes-bacheando-works-for.html
If you are like me you sometimes think of various lists of favorite artists and/or perhaps composers... like for example what about the more important and innovative High Modern composers f...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2024/03/george-crumb-music-for-amplified-piano.html
The state-of-the-art when it comes to Modern virtuoso music for the piano today can be had nicely in the recent album of piano works by Canadian-Chinese composer Alice Ping Yee Ho as play...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2024/01/alice-ping-ye-ho-blaze-christina.html
Today we roll into the modified Space Age and that robotic vision of Hal in 2001 is closer to our experience than certainly it was when the movie was made. And the music we hear now, is that ...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/12/susan-alcorn-jose-lencastre-hernani.html
Linda Catlin Smith is a composer getting attention in good ways with her work in recent years including especially her new album Dark Flower (Red Shift CD). The Thin Edge Music Collective co...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/12/linda-catlin-smith-dark-flower-thin.html
Ah, great, somebody I've never heard of has works I've never heard," some reader I've never heard of either might be saying as she confronts this article. OK, so I ain't gonna get...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/12/gerald-cohen-voyagers-new-music-for.html
US composer Stanley Grill takes inspiration from Hart Crane's epic poem on his recent World Premiere recorded orchestral work The Bridge (self released digital) featuring Brett Deubner on vi...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/11/stanley-grill-bridge.html
It is not precisely usual to experience an album sequence that pairs Beethoven with Stockhausen, excepting perhaps an old album of Stockhausen's that dealt with Beethoven themes on a 1970 ...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/11/marc-ponthus-plays-beethoven.html
Sonic Alchemy (Sono Luminus DSL92261) gathers together the considerable interpretive and sonically advanced gifts of violinist YuEun Kim, pianist Mina Gajic, and cellist Coleman Itzkoff ...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/11/sonic-alchemy-yueun-kim-mina-gajic.html
In music you might spend a lifetime with some composers and still not know some of the works. That is the case for me to date with Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland and their respective...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/leonard-bernstein-music-for-string.html
You live your life day-to-day and for me anyway the new music I hear marks time as a constant and an inspiration to me. There is no different a situation today except perhaps the offering s...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/justin-dello-joio-oceans-apart-boston.html
Vivian Fung steps forward thanks to a rewarding new album covering her four string quartets on the recent CD Insects & Machines (Sono Luminus DSL-92270), played with a beautiful sense of c...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/vivian-fung-insects-machines-quartets.html
The so-called Third Stream of Jazz and Modern Jazz and Classical music has never really died in our lifetimes, it just has changed names in various ways. There is no shortage of inspired exa...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/quinsin-nachoff-stars-and-constellations.html
Estonian master composer Arvo Part is probably the world's most acclaimed choral composer among the living, and that for good reason. The Capella Romana present fresh versions of some of Par...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/arvo-part-odes-of-repentance-capella.html
Solo violin music in the Contemporary Classical world has become something like what the solo saxophone offerings became in New Jazz beginning in the seventies, a kind of opening frontier an...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/dan-flanagan-bow-and-brush-new-music.html
One way to avoid a strait and simple return to tonality is perhaps at times to carve a path through microtonality, so that if all goes right it expands our sense of what is available, stretc...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/julia-werntz-somebody-who-loves-you.html
When is Johann Sebastian Bach not Johann Sebastian Bach? One might answer, when he is arranged to sound somewhat differently than he himself customarily would call for? For example we have t...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/bach-6-with-4-amit-peled-mount-vernon.html
The King's Singers are a choral institution. We have the good fortune to hear part of why that is and to hear them right now at a peak, performing music they have commissioned over the years...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-kings-singers-wonderland-capella.html
Jon Christopher Nelson's The Persistence of Time and Memory (Neuma 1840) has a landmark quality to it as an ambitious electronic and concrete landscape that thrives in its multi-movement...
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Of all the cantatas Johann Sebastian Bach wrote over his lifetime (many), his secular cantatas are not as prevalent and sometimes seem somewhat overlooked in the swim of things, partially...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/myths-contested-washington-bach-consort.html
Some time in the late '50s as Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos neared the end of his life he was commissioned to compose the orchestral soundtrack to the movie Green Mansions, the sound...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/10/amazonia-villa-lobos-glass-camilia.html
Danish composer Poul Ruders has gotten justly a fair amount of attention on these pages (type his name in the search box above). Today we have one of the most impressive compositions yet in ...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/09/poul-ruders-piano-trio-trio-con-brio.html
The more you listen to the newest of New Music, the more you apprehend and perhaps appreciate the gradual shift away from a High Modernist, and then too beyond a Minimalist overall stance. W...
https://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.com/2023/09/sybarites-collective-wisdom-new-chamber.html