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Miranda Cuckson
Violinist Miranda Cuckson (with frequent collaborator, pianist Blair McMillen) continues her compelling and fascinating recorded documentation of Modern and contemporary violin music on this...
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Danish String Quartet
Ahh, the string quartet. Or, the String Quartet. It’s a beast that’s both medium (two violins, viola, cello) and genre (less quantifiable, but trust me, every composer knows what it is), inspiring and...
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Miranda Cuckson
by Steve Hicken On her new album Invisible Colors (get it from Amazon), Miranda Cuckson continues to explore the complex side of the violin’s recent and not-so-recent repertoire with persuasive...
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Beth Levin
by Steve Hicken It’s not always easy to tell if a recital or album of concert music is about the performer or about the music. To be completely honest about it, as a composer I tend to favor those...
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Elliott Carter
by Steve Hicken It’s been discussed at some length how the music of Elliott Carter’s late late period (however it’s defined) is “easier” to hear. Back in the 1980s, when this idea began to gain some...
View ArticleYuko Fujiyama
As far as I can tell, Night Waves is Yuko Fujiyama’s third disc as a quartet leader. The quartet consists of Fujiyama on piano, Jennifer Choi on violin, Graham Haynes on cornet and flugelhorn, and...
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I need to get this on the record from the start: Soprano Ah Young Hong is a wonder. She has a remarkable sound and seemingly limitless technique. Her performance of the two daunting works on this disc,...
View ArticleDuo Gazzana
Early works often contain clear indications of the voice and style of the mature artist. That’s the case with three of the four pieces on Ravel, Franck, Ligeti, Messiaen, the new disc by Duo Gazzana....
View ArticleArvo Part
Estonia’s Arvo Pärt is undoubtedly one of the world’s most popular composers of concert music. Pärt’s mature style, often called “Holy Minimalism,” involves triadic harmony and stepwise melodic...
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