New Classical
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Jesse Woolston tends to let his music speak for itself. Variations Vol. 1, the New Zealander’s fifth release, lands today with little in the way of fanfare or description. He did offer this in an email: “This collection explores sound design, moods and soundtrack equivalent music. I work with a range of techniques from organ,…
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Celebrated British composer Michael Price has worked with film-makers for much of his career. After scoring numerous dance works early in his career, Michael Kamen asked Price to orchestrate and program music for his Paramount production of Event Horizon. That 1996 gig sparked a vibrant five-year period during which the pair collaborated on multiple film…
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Victoriaville, Quebec has been synonymous with contemporary music for more than three decades. The Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville attracts many of the world’s great new music composers and performers. It’s also home to Charles Barabé, an artist building himself a similarly impressive international reputation. His latest, De la fragilité, represents a shift…
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France’s Marc Euvrie is a study in contrasts. Classically trained as a pianist and cellist in childhood, he left it all behind for the punk scene. More recent works include a mix of classical and electronic influences. And he has shed the stripped-down, do-it-yourself hardcore ethic for an ambitious trilogy project that promises to explore…
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It was the fall of 1986. My girlfriend and I were visiting her brother Steve and sister-in-law Evita, both fans of traditional classical music. I looked up to them both and was eager to impress them with my contributions to the evening’s playlist. My most recent purchase was John Cage’s Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared…
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Jon Rose and Chris Abrahams have been circling one another for decades. Four to be exact. They’ve worked together on a variety of projects, but never as a duo. That alone makes this recording an exciting proposition for fans of new classical music. Rose is a violinist who pushes the instrument well outside its conventional…
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