Review: Joan Tower – “Strike Zones”, “Ivory and Ebony” – Evelyn Glennie, Blair McMillen
Dame Evelyn Glennie and Blair McMillen on Joan Tower's contemporary Concertos for percussion and piano, with the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller.
Dame Evelyn Glennie and Blair McMillen on Joan Tower's contemporary Concertos for percussion and piano, with the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller.
Violinist Randall Goosby in his debut album, with pianist Zhu Wang and contrabass player and composer Xavier Dubois Foley.
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Pianist Inna Faliks combines Beethoven’s Op. 126 Bagatelles with nine new contemporary pieces, some influenced by Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit.
Pekka Kuusisto plays a new Violin Concerto by Nico Muhly, with works by Philip Glass.
On their debut recording, the c/o Chamber Orchestra perform Divertimenti by Ibert, Bernard, Bartók and Ippolito.
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Daniel Reuss conducts Cappella Amsterdam in a program which combines Renaissance composer Giaches de Wert and contemporary composer Wolfgang Rihm.
Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in a program of Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos with 6 works by contemporary composers.
Hilary Hahn plays Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, Chausson's Poèm and two Sèrènades by Rautavaara, with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mikko Franck.