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Interview with the Pacifica Quartet It is by no means an exageration to claim that the Pacifica Quartet have collected critical aclaim virtually from the ...

Lacus Somniorum: Tideshaper arrives with two years delay Gustaf Hildebrand is finally making true on his promise of a new musical direction by releasing “Tideshaper” under the moniker ...

CD Feature/ Denis Patkovic: "Bach & Tiensuu: Goldberg - Mine Variations" Beyond the Novelty factor: A new conglomerate, longer and even more mysterious than the famous blueprint.

László Melis: "Black and White" reconsiles Tradition with Evolution Hungarian Composer László Melis has joined forces with Pianist Zoltán Lengyel for an album of Piano magic. Aptly titled “Black ...

CD Feature/ Janek Schaefer: "Alone at Last" & "Extended Play" Schaefer has long put his three-armed turntable aside: If hope could become music, this is what it would sound like.

Peter Eötvös: Love and other Demons haunt Glyndebourne Hungarian “composer, conductor and teacher” Peter Eötvös is putting the finishing touches to his latest opera. Scheduled for a world ...

15 Questions to Barbara Kuster/Asasello Quartett For the past decades, internationalism and cross-border programming have been part of concepts to bring people back into classical concert ...

Luca Francesconi: First, there was no Word On his latest album, Italian composer Luca Francesconi goes all the way back to the beginning. “Etymo” contains four compositions ...

15 Questions to Normunds Šnē/Sinfonietta Riga Is Normunds suffering from a split personality? He seems too spirited, sympathetic and smart for it, but without a single ...

15 Questions to Duo46 "Wondering about the 4 and 6? What does it mean?" Matt Gould and his congenial partner Beth Ilana Schneider-Gould oracled ...

Osvaldo Golijov: Composes with Francis Ford Coppola Only shortly after the announcement that director Francis Ford Coppola had asked contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov to write the score ...

New Albion Festival: Contemporary Compositions at Bard College Summerscape New Albion Records are once again putting the finishing touch to their annual celebration of contemporary composition, as their “festival ...

Giya Kancheli: Little Imber on ECM ECM Records are honouring the work of Giya Kancheli. Regulary refered to as the greatest living Georgian composer, Kanchelli has ...

Peteris Vasks: Composer and Sinfonietta Riga deplore destruction The star of Latvian composer Peteris Vasks is continuing to rise. After a recent release with Finish record company Ondine, ...

CD Feature/ Jonty Harrison: "Environs" A familar ring: 21st century programmatic musique concrete.