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3d ago
Today is midwinter, equally balanced between autumn and spring. Winter Moonlight is a perfect accompaniment to cold, crisp winter nights under a full moon with a cover of newly-fallen snow. On this release, Evgeny Grinko circles all the way back to his ..read more
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3d ago
Having just completed her incredible 12-month, 12-EP series A Year of Lore, Laura Cannell has immediately launched into a new series. A Compendium of Beasts, described as “a Medieval Bestiary in Sound,” begins with a tribute to four different beasts, suggesting that the ..read more
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1w ago
Ludovico Einaudi is one of the highest-profile artists we’ve ever covered, as close to being a household name as there is in the field of modern composition. The pianist-composer, who will turn 70 this year, has earned his reputation with a ..read more
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1w ago
The Academy Awards nominations for 2024 have just been announced, and already we have a contender for 2025 in the category of Best Film Score. Un Monde Violent is a French thriller about two brothers who decide to hold up a ..read more
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1M ago
This entrancing album is a moving tribute to all the wonderful complexity of being human. Back in 2018, Nat Bartsch released Forever, and No Time At All, a beguiling album of quiet, contemporary classical lullabies, written in moments between caring for her ..read more
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1M ago
Sweetness and elegance are the hallmarks of this season’s modern composition releases. Whether playing a mother’s old piano or returning home to reconnect to the history of a nation, these artists find inspiration in the past while charting a path ..read more
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1M ago
When a composer dies, a world falls silent; two of the composers honored below are no longer with us, but their music lives on. One album stretches back even further to highlight a 9th century princess; another recalls the woman ..read more
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2M ago
Five years have passed since The Thief Bunny Society, whose animated title track imitated a children’s book, with a flying whale, a bunny on a motorbike and a pernicious lynx. In the videos from Tenants of Misty Mansion (According to ..read more
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3M ago
Luke Howard is no stranger to orchestral arrangement, but Interlinked is the composer’s first work for full orchestra, the score to Juliano Nunes’ ballet Interlinked. The choreography intentionally challenges gender norms in ballet, while the fluidity of the score underlines the approach ..read more
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3M ago
If three composers can be considered a supergroup, then Sarah Neufeld and Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre) and Rebecca Foon (Esmerine, Saltland, Thee Silver Mt. Zion) fit the definition. They first improvised together in Montreal back in ..read more