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.
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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 & 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 »An International Mosaic: 28th Beijing Music Festival Links Classical and Contemporary, China and the West, October 10–24, 2025
Every fall the BMF brings together China's top rising talent with world-class musicians from across the globe.
Read More »Book & Music Reviews: ‘Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run,’ plus Reggae from the Mighty Rootsmen and the Kingston Lions
At one point Springsteen’s finances were so depleted that he couldn’t afford to hire the musicians he needed for the album...
Read More »Music Review: Blue Heron & DÜNYA: ‘Lessons from Nightingales” – Songs of Sufi Mysteries by Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol
This collaboration between vocal ensemble Blue Heron and composer Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol is as beautiful as it is tricky to describe.
Read More »Music & Video Reviews: Badfinger’s Lost LP, plus Live Albums from Al Stewart, Translator, and Oregon
This new edition of Badfinger's 'Head First' employs the recently discovered master tapes, which have been newly mixed and mastered by Bob Jackson, the band’s only surviving member.
Read More »Music Review: Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia – ‘The Devil Rides Again’
As one would expect from a brass band, they can blow the roof off a building, but they can also give subtle and nuanced performances that pull out surprising emotional content from any tune they perform.
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 »Music Reviews: Nighthawk, Smoking Popes, the Seldom Scene, Maria Manousaki, Grey DeLisle, and Johnny Rawls
Nighthawk (Parker Hawkins) is clearly brimming over with musical ideas, most of them excellent. And somehow, his seemingly disparate material all fits comfortably on one CD.
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