"This is one of the reasons I’m so drawn to early music – it provides the temporal distance necessary to transform what we inherit into something new."
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Music Review: Mischa Salkind-Pearl – ‘Lines and Traces of Desire’ (Music for Cimbalom)
Nicholas Tolle is the featured performer in new music for the cimbalom, an Eastern European instrument resembling a large hammered dulcimer.
Read More »Music Reviews: ‘The Rich-R-Tone Folk Star Story,’ plus Willie Nelson, Jeb Loy Nichols, and Jonathan Richman
Fans of mid-20th-century Southern music will likely recognize the name of the act for which Rich-R-Tone is most known: the Stanley Brothers, whose first 14 bluegrass recordings appeared on the label and are all included here.
Read More »Interview: Curtis New Music Ensemble Director Nick DiBerardino on Upcoming ‘We the Artists’ Concert at 92NY
In their 92NY debut on Nov. 21, 2025, the group will focus on music of the Americas with works by Brazilian composer Clarice Assad and American composers Carlos Simon and Valerie Coleman.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Beatrice Rana at Carnegie Hall
The Italian artist wields her pianistic prowess in service of the wide-ranging expressivity that signals a true and complete virtuoso.
Read More »Interview: Composer Hana Ajiashvili, Winner of 2026 Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music
In 'Riddle' for chorus and orchestra the Georgian-Israeli composer transforms a medieval verse-riddle by poet Yehuda Halevi into a meditation on persecution and resilience.
Read More »Azrieli Foundation Announces 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates
The winners of Canada's top music composition competition hail from Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Read More »Music Review: Erik Carlson and Ensemble Combinatoria – ‘Canone nel Nodo de Salamone’ by Pier Francesco Valentini
With 1,024 parts, the individual lines blend into what we hear as one prolonged chord. Listening to it out of context you'd likely think it was a piece of avant-garde conceptual art.
Read More »Music & Film Reviews: Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska ’82,’ plus Diane Hubka, the Kasambwe Brothers, and Terry Klein
What might well offer sufficient reason to fork over your money for this expanded edition are the live performances of 'Nebraska'’s songs, which are presented in the same order as on the original album and offered both on CD and as a film on Blu-ray.
Read More »Concert Review: Focused on Ukraine, Dalia Stasevska Conducts the New York Philharmonic, Joshua Bell
A war-themed program at Lincoln Center featured volatile works by two Ukrainian composers, plus Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland.
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