A classical-music supergroup? That's the Principal Brothers: four Black principal (first-chair) woodwind players, who joined forces for a chamber concert with music from Bach to new works written for them.
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Concert Review: Rudersdal Chamber Players in NYC Debut
Victoria Bond's Cutting Edge Concerts series presented the Danish ensemble with music of Elena Firsova, Andrew Waggoner, Danish composer Poul Ruders, and Bond herself.
Read More »Music Review: Richard Carrick and Either/Or – ‘The Atlas’
If we don't really have an atlas in the end, we have an idea for one – a set of maps drawn in the shifting sands of sound.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Pianist Adam Żukiewicz on Saint-Saëns, Chopin, and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
The pianist spoke with us about his upcoming concert at Carnegie, his Chopin project, and commissioning new music from Colorado to Eastern Europe.
Read More »Music Review: New Thread Quartet – ‘Saxifraga,’ New Music for Saxophones
Even the most familiar of instruments harbors endless possibilities. Mining them is a task that never ends, and never should.
Read More »Concert Review: Mannes Orchestra with Sandbox Percussion, Stefan Jackiw
Throughout the concert the young musicians showed a high level of collective polish and individual skill to go with their infectious enthusiasm.
Read More »Music Review: loadbang – ‘A Garden Adorned’
The quartet's new album harvests the creativity of five composers, each marshaling in their own style loadbang's unique sound world.
Read More »Music Review: Jeremias Schwarzer – ‘New Recorder Concertos’
These four works, each remarkable in its own way, spotlight the wide-ranging skills and creativity of recorder virtuoso Jeremias Schwarzer himself as well as the composers' challenging and distinctive visions.
Read More »Concert Review: Curtis on Tour with Jason Vieaux – Music for Guitar and Strings
Two stellar Curtis students joined Vieaux and violist Roberto Díaz in music by de Falla, Piazzolla, Paganini and Zhou Tian.
Read More »Concert Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Delivers NY Premiere of Klezmer Concerto by Noah Bendix-Balgley
Klezmer music inspired a dazzling three-movement work by Noah Bendix-Balgley, who takes the tradition to new ground. The program also included dances famously reimagined by Bartók and Brahms.
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