American modern classical composer Christopher Cerrone composed his piano concerto The Air Suspended only to have its debut performance cancelled,
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Dreams are Different for Anxious People
Double-disc set of contemporary classical music from Canada here called I Had A Dream About This Place (NO HAY DISCOS
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New chamber music from Eren Gümrükçüoğlu, the Turkish-born composer, on Pareidolia (NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS FCR343) played by JACK Quartet, Mivos
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I never heard the music of Hungarian modernist György Kurtág before, but that’s my loss…the CD Hommage A Kurtág (NEW
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For percussionist Greg Stuart, music has been something of a less-then-easy journey. He has focal dystonia, a neurological condition that
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Canadian composer Monica Pearce here with her Textile Fantasies (CENTREDISCS CMCCD 30322) – she sometimes does opera, but this album
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Contemporary classical album from Bekah Simms, composer from Newfoundland and based I think in Glasgow and/or Toronto just now. Her
Continue readingDoes Spring Hide Its Joy: a triptych of dronescape works of surprising richness and complexity
Kali Malone (featuring Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton), Does Spring Hide Its Joy, Ideologic Organ, SOMA 050, 3 x vinyl
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Modernist composer Alex Zethson here with his Residy (THANATOSIS PRODUKTION THT16 / SUPERPANG 126). We did hear him last leading
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Tactile Stories (CACOPHONOUS REVIVAL RECORDINGS CRR-015) is is acoustic duo improv from Colin Fisher (sax or guitar) and Mike Gennaro
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