Reviews

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After the Storm . . .

I’m not sure about you, but I’m already looking forward to putting 2020 in the rearview mirror. We’re not even halfway through the year and we’ve weathered a catastrophic tornado and are grappling with a global pandemic . . . and we’re not out of the woods yet. As our communities gradually reopen and we learn to adjust to what is a hopefully temporary “new normal”, we are all confronted with uncertainty and apprehension about the future. But, even as we adjust to quarantine, social distancing, facemasks, and the elbow bump rather than the handshake – we can still take Read More

A New Release from Marquis Classics

The Jasper and Jupiter Quartets: Mendelssohn/ Visconti/ Golijov

The new double string quartet album recorded by the Jasper and Jupiter string quartets is a thing of beauty. The quartets are made up of siblings, spouses, and longtime friends,Read More

New from Westerlies Records:

Theo Bleckmann and The Westerlies’ ‘This Land’

In the seemingly relentless movements of resistance and public outcry in recent years, one can be quickly overwhelmed by the moment and wonder if it will ever end. However, from Read More

An aTonalHits release

aTonal Hits ‘Movements’ — a wonderful listen for the coming wintry nights.

aTonal Hits is a small online team of Illya Filshtinskiy & Katha Zinn, and their prolific performing output shows them to be equally comfortable with Bach or Berg. While the Read More

A New Release from Avie:

Mythologies from Anna Clyne

On October 16th, 2020 AVIE Records released Mythologies, a feature on the composer Anna Clyne. This album includes five orchestral compositions, composed over a decade, recorded live by the BBC Read More

Virtual Release

Spektral Quartet Touts New Listening Experience

This week Spektral Quartet, Chicago’s multi-grammy nominated ensemble, releases their fourth full length studio album: Experiments in Living. Taking its namesake from a quote by utilitarian philosopher John Stuart Mill Read More

Nashville Symphony's release

The Second Summer Release from the Nashville Symphony

Three weeks after cancelling the 20/21 season, the Nashville Symphony released a new recording featuring the music of the Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Christopher Rouse. This recording, the Read More

A New Recording from the Nashville Symphony:

Aaron Jay Kernis’ Color Wheel and 4th Symphony, “Chromelodeon”

The Nashville Symphony just released it’s newest recording on Naxos’s American Classics series. Featuring two works by Pulitzer, Grammy and Grawemeyer Award winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, Color Wheel (2001)Read More

A Virtual Release

Timbre Cierpke Debuts Digital Release ‘Gullfoss’

The subject of the arts during quarantine has been written about ad nauseam. I’ve found that these articles seldomly tackle the art or music they are tasked with, but instead Read More

At the Schermerhorn

A “Simple Gift” from the Nashville Symphony

The program presented by the Nashville Symphony this past weekend had been highlighted on my calendar for a few months now. All works performed were less than one hundred years Read More

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