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Over the past few years Alexandre Tharaud invited 22 of his pianist friends and colleagues to record a piano duet with him, either in brief
It’s been a trend among daring string quartets (and their marketing departments) to go back to concept-albums, recitals-on-disc, stringently and sometimes eclectically curated pieces of
Triad, the latest release by Icelandic pianist Vikingur (Heiðar) Ólafsson, isn’t a new album. It’s simply a fancy repackaging of his last three main releases
No New York City resident has been immune to the physical and emotional stress resulting from the pandemic and various states of lockdown, and that
This tight, creepy opera from 1987 is marvelously economical and enormously effective. Scored only for string quintet, three winds, (a very effective and unexpected) horn,
This is a fine idea, beautifully executed. The similarities between Baroque music and minimalism may be somewhat shallow, but they’re valid: repetition, variations slight and
Critics and fans alike like to say that Philip Glass composes music that is either riveting or dull. Whatever, count this new symphony among the
An hour-long all-Philip Glass solo trumpet recital? On paper, the idea sounds tantamount to slow torture. In reality, it’s quite mesmerizing, at least in the
In some respects Philip Glass’ Third Piano Concerto (scored for pianist and string orchestra) represents “typical” Glass: the repeated phrases assembled like modular shelves, the
Today’s percussionists are amazing virtuosos, and the members of Third Coast Percussion play with astonishing precision and sensitivity throughout this intelligently planned recital built around
