French maestro and impresario Laurent Rochelle produced the charming Prima Kanta record which we noted in 2021, enjoying its very
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Ancient Pathways
Kate Moore Ridgeway NETHERLANDS Unsounds 75U CD (2023) Kate Moore is a relatively prolific Australian composer and former sound artist,
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Solo upright bass improvisations and compositions from Nils Vermeulen on his variations (ASPEN EDITIES Aspen016) LP. Some bass players might
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Canadian composer Anthony Tan made Susurrus (GENGSENG RECORDS GS004) almost entirely with a single grand piano – admittedly with some
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Album (NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS FCR360) of two discrete halves from Lei Liang, Chinese-born composer based in San Diego. His Hearing
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American modern classical composer Christopher Cerrone composed his piano concerto The Air Suspended only to have its debut performance cancelled,
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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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