Where better to experience a work as capacious and religious as the 'St. Matthew Passion' by J.S. Bach than in one of the world's most cavernous churches?
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Music Review: Benedict Sheehan — ‘Ukrainian War Requiem’ with Axios Men’s Ensemble and Pro Coro Canada
The most striking thing about this death-themed service is the music's continuous excitation of life...the nervous electricity inherent in the fusion of art and the human voice.
Read More »Concert Review: The Marian Consort – Music from Renaissance Scotland
The eight singers of the a cappella ensemble brought out every part in a selection complex contrapuntal music written or compiled in 16th-century Scotland.
Read More »Concert Review: Soprano Measha Brueggergosma-Lee, Composer-Pianist Aaron Davis Set Poems of Margaret Atwood in ‘Zombie Blizzard’
Davis' seven-part song cycle for soprano, jazz trio and brass quintet provoked thought and admiration in Brooklyn.
Read More »Interview: Composer Yair Klartag on His Azrieli Prize Commission ‘The Parable of the Palace’
Klartag's new work for choir and four double basses, the winner of the Azrieli Foundation's Commission for Jewish Music for 2024, investigates the limits of logic and reason in explaining reality and the metaphysical.
Read More »Concert Review: Violinist Virgil Boutellis-Taft with Pianist JuYoung Park at Carnegie Hall (June 12, 2024)
A bravura concert showed that the music on Virgil Boutellis-Taft's album 'Incantation' retains its power when stripped down to violin and piano.
Read More »Music Review: Ensemble Gilles Binchois – ‘Timor Mortis’
The choral ensemble dusts off the 'Missa pro defunctis' of 16th-century composer Charles d'Argentil – the earliest extant polyphonic setting of the Requiem Mass.
Read More »Concert Review: Clarion Choir and Orchestra – Music of Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410–1497) at the Met Cloisters
Ockeghem marks the pinnacle of the Renaissance style, and the great Clarion Choir brought his music to life on the pinnacle of Manhattan.
Read More »Music Reviews: Chip Taylor’s ‘Behind the Sky,’ plus Jazz Giants Chet Baker, Sun Ra, and Art Tatum, and More
Reviews of the effusive latest Chip Taylor CD, plus jazz greats Chet Baker, Sun Ra, and Art Tatum, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Crow and Gazelle.
Read More »Interviews: Azrieli Music Prize Laureates on U.S. Premieres, March 28 in NYC
New works by Azrieli Music Prize winners Iman Habibi, Aharon Harlap and Rita Ueda will receive U.S. debuts with Orchestra of St. Lukes.
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