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CD Feature/ The Smith Quartet: "Philip Glass - Complete String Quartets" New insights, fresh inspiration: The quartets are free to be celebrated and cursed again.

Patricia Kopatchinskaja: The Studio is her Friend now Some, even her friend and colleague Sol Gabetta, feared Patricia Kopatchinskaja might never ever record a CD. Now, she is ...

15 Questions to Friedrich Gauwerky Friedrich Gauwerky doesn't mind genre definitions, as long as they reveal something about the essence of the music contained within ...

A Butterfly and a Windstorm Powerful Effects: Dominik Susteck improvises on Cologne's "New Music Organ" once a month all year long.

CD Feature/ Simone Dinnerstein: "The Berlin Concert" Such tiny spaces: A testing ground for Dinnerstein's versatility and volubility as an artist.

60x60: Wellington welcomes New Music's fastest-ticking clock New Zealand is counting down the seconds as it is set to host the annual 60x60 music event for the ...

Orgel-Mixturen: Celebrates Contemporary Organ Repertoire Friends of adventurous Organ repertoire are in for a treat. Cologne’s Jesuite Church of Saint Peter has invited the cream ...

Vassilis Tsabropoulos & Anja Lechner: "Melos" offers polychromatic music on ECM Greek composer Vassilis Tsabropoulos is back with a new collaborational album featuring Cellist and co-founder of the renowned Rosamunde Quartet ...

20th Century & American Classics: Alarmingly attractive New Music series By means of two delectable new series, EMI is allowing music fans to grace their discographies with some of the ...

LP Feature/ Esther Venrooy: "The Spiral Staircase" Sounds with a personality: A burning path along transitory scenes of halucinatory intensity.

Philip Glass: A Portrait in Twelve Parts Originally realised as a personal hommage to celebrate the composer's 70th birthday, Scott Hicks' „Glass – A Portrait of Philip ...

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 ...