A Variety of Contemporary Music To Explore
A new variety of downloadable releases hit streaming services this month from Navona. As usual there is a little bit of something for...
May Film Music Overview
We are almost to the next potential summer blockbuster season and with that will come big action hopeful blockbusters to try and entice...
A Consoling Violin Recital
Consolations Margaret Maya Magub, violin. Hsin-I Huang, piano. CRD Records 3540 Total Time: 65:12 Recording: ****/**** Performance:...
Working the 9s: Chamber Music From Christopher Gordon
Christopher Gordon: Chamber Music Magic Fire Ensemble Magic Fire Music 007 Disc One: 15 tracks – 65:57 Disc Two: 8 tracks – 56:50...
Heffes Intimate Piano Release
Quite a number of years ago, I had the chance to hear the score for Touching the Void. This 2003 documentary/adventure film had a score...
Neo-Romantic Piano Sonatas From Australia
Vine: Complete Piano Sonatas Xiaoya Liu, piano Dynamic 7931 Total Time: 69:56 Recording: ****/**** Performance: ****/**** Australian...
A Little Spring Break
May is always a bit of a busy month with one semester coming to an end and then this year a 2-week intensive run through music history. ...
Catch a Ray with Variant 6
New Suns Variant 6 Open G Records 195269 164461 Total Time: 56:12 Recording: ****/**** Performance: ****/**** New Suns is the debut...
Digital Catch Up: A Few New Releases
A couple digital only releases to bring to everyone's attention this week from the Parma family of labels. Perhaps the most fascinating...
New Music from Michigan Composer David Colson
David Colson: Rise—Music in Times of Uncertainty Western Brass Quintet; Benjamin Kamins, bassoon., Matthew Strauss, percussion.; Clocks...