All Entries in the "Journalism" Category
CD Review: Strange Toys
STRANGE TOYS | Talking House Records 2008 | Joan Jeanrenaud, cello; PC Munoz, producer
Tracks: Sling Shot | Axis | Kaleidoscope | Transition | Tug of War | Dervish | Ink Blot | Blue Kite | Livre | Waiting | Rainkids | Air & Angels | Vermont Rules | Trottola |
LISTEN TO AXIS | [...]
CD Review: Cortical Songs
Cortical Songs | NonClassical | 2008 | | BUY THE ALBUM
John Matthias | Nick Ryan | Thom Yorke | Neil Grant | John Fisher | Gabriel Prokofiev | Marcas Lancaster | David Prior | John MacLean | Simon Tong | Dominic Murcott | Andy Prior | Marcus Coates
Paring down the scientific rationale for [...]
Review: KW Symphony with Tania Miller
In today’s Record
Baroque and early Classical music, that is to say music composed between roughly 1600-1800, offers many rewards to those that are willing to take the time to really get to know the repertoire. For those of us that aren’t able to devote a significant part of our lives to studying the 17th [...]
Review: Nota Bene Period Orchestra
In today’s Record
A concert Friday night by the Nota Bene Period Orchestra was proof that the witching hour comes early on Hallowe’en and is indiscriminate in its manifestation. By 7:45pm, two men in full 18th century livery were seated in the front row. By 8, cellist Felix Deak’s transmutation into The Incredible Hulk had already [...]
Review: Aviv Quartet Shostakovich Cycle
In today’s Record
On the whole, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) did not write pretty music. Tormented, terrifying, subversive and embittered, most definitely, but rarely ever pretty. His pieces are not devoid of beauty, it’s just that you have to wade through a lot of darkness to find it. Shostakovich is well known for his sarcasm and [...]
Nico Muhly - Interview Extras
As always, most of an interview conversation doesn’t make it into the final piece but that doesn’t mean the leftovers are not worth reading. Also, for this concert, there was a repertoire change, so lots of good bits had to be cut because they were about So To Speak (2004) rather than Wish [...]
Feature: Nico Muhly - Wish You Were Here
In The Waterloo Region Record 30/09/2008
If the press murmurings are to be believed, he is a messiah: here to give classical music new life as an accessible art form that is relevant to a 21st century audience. Of course, it’s an impossible (some would argue unnecessary) task for one person but it seems that if [...]
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