Review by: David Vernier Artistic Quality: 9 Sound Quality: 9 These things aren’t always a bad idea, or a pointless exercise, or even a not-so-pointless if merely functional effort to supply certain solo-repertoire-hungry instrumentalists (trumpet, guitar, mandolin, accordion–and even piano four-hands) with something new and respectable to play. Transcribing (as opposed to arranging) works for instruments that weren’t originally…
Review by: David Hurwitz Artistic Quality: 9 Sound Quality: 9 Forget about the creepy cover art. It must be a sign of persistent sexism in the arts industry that photos of tortured women adorn CD covers willy-nilly, often for the most pointless of reasons. The music on this disc is overwhelmingly light, charming, even comical, while the photo is…
Review by: Jed Distler Artistic Quality: 7 Sound Quality: 8 Andrew von Oeyen looks upon this Bach and Beethoven program as a musical narrative of his pandemic experience. Had there been no concert cancellations or lockdowns, would Oeyen have played these works differently? Would his finger work throughout Bach’s Overture in the French Style have yielded comparably meticulous yet…
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Paganini met trap beats and 8-bit heart emojis? This combo was the quarantine brainchild of violinist Curtis Stewart, and the resulting “Improvisation on Paganini Caprice #11” is one of 17 new tracks on his forthcoming album Of Power, which features music of resistance and resilience. Of Power includes original songs and re-imagined of…
Lowak Shoppala’, a work for orchestra, children’s chorus, and narrator, stands out in the catalogue of composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate for its privileging of Chickasaw stories. Commissioned by the American Composers Forum in 2006 and premiered in November 2009, the staged version brought together a network of Chickasaw performers, dancers, storytellers, and artisans. Since the premiere, ensembles throughout the…
The idea for Ine Aya’ – voice from a fading forest sparked off at a chance meeting between Indonesian composer Nursalim Yadi Anugerah and Dutch librettist and director Miranda Lakerveld in 2019. In his music, Anugerah expresses his concern for the ongoing deforestation of his native Kalimantan (Borneo) and draws inspiration from Takna’ Lawe’, the oral poetry of the Indigenous Kayan…
With an extensive catalogue of works for orchestra, chorus, opera, chamber music, and solo instruments, Dr. Adolphus Hailstork has spent his decades long career uplifting Black stories. His most recent world premiere will take place in a digitally streamed concert in partnership with The Greene Space on June 19, 2021 at 7:00pm EDT with the performance of his Tulsa…
It is probably completely unsurprising for a reviewer to assert, at the outset of a critique of a Handel program presented by Amanda Forsythe and the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble that Ms. Forsythe sang gloriously and ravishingly and that the BEMF Chamber Ensemble played with expressive and technical brilliance that supported and enriched the whole. So what…
The Green Mountain Man Claudio Monteverdi numbers among those rare composers who can be called “complete” because of an ability to create successfully in every style and genre of their times. Such composers include Purcell, Mozart, and Stravinsky, in my view. (Bach is not there because he didn’t write opera, though he slips a toe in the door because…
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts presented pianist Marc Ponthus at the Gardner Museum Saturday evening in a special celebration of Russell Sherman’s 91st birthday. An audience, small in number on account of the Coronavirus, witnessed monuments of Ludwig van Beethoven, his Piano Sonata no. 29 in B-flat Major, op. 106, (“Hammerklavier”), and Karlheinz Stockhausen, his Klavierstück X. A pioneer…
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