New Classical
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There has been a lot written about the ability of sad music to trigger memories, which can either make us feel better or worse. A 2016 study run out of Durham University in the U.K. and Finland’s University of Jyväskylä found that participant reactions tended to fall under three categories: “pleasure, comfort and pain.” For…
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Italian composer Lorenzo Masotto says his decision to produce a solo-piano album was “a real homecoming.” The suitably titled Home is his sixth LP; the first written solely for piano. “After years of experimentation I needed to go back to writing only for piano, which has always been my instrument,” wrote Masotto in an email.…
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In preparation for my review of Cheryl Duvall’s and Anna Höstman’s beautiful new disc Harbour for exclaim.ca, I reached out to Duvall here in Toronto to discuss the recording and her working relationship with the Victoria, B.C.-based composer. I’ve prepared a lengthy feature on Harbour for ep. 89 of The Moderns. That’ll be posted Jan.…
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Listening to Martina Bertoni’s debut long-player, it’s not difficult to imagine her embraced by classical music audiences around the world. Despite being a skilled cellist however, All the Ghosts Are Gone is more an electronic than a new classical work. It is a combination of the two, to be sure. It is also, arguably, the…
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The last four years have been productive ones for Japanese composer and pianist Akira Kosemura. During that relatively short period of time, he’s produced three full-length LPs (including the extraordinary In the Dark Woods) and a pair of soundtrack albums. The list of EPs and reworks projects he’s contributed to over the same period runs…
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New York composer Michael Vincent Waller has delivered a third album to his quickly growing fanbase. Moments features R. Andrew Lee on piano and the celebrated William Winant on vibraphone. This weekend’s edition of The Moderns will feature excerpts from an interview Waller and I conducted last week. Here’s an edited version that includes material…
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