New Classical
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The Saltern label has announced the May 5 release of a new live recording of Éliane Radigue’s extraordinary solo cello work Naldjorlak, featuring Charles Curtis. The performance is from a Los Angeles show in 2020. The double-CD package also features Curtis’ 2006 performance in Paris. “Even as it expands conceptions of what sound is, and…
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Tim Linghaus, Monika Deja and Annasara Lundgren are among the composers featured on the fourth release in Blue Spiral Records’ Uto’Pians series. The new collection of piano works launches Mar. 21. The new volume has been curated by Jordane Tumarinson. “I am amazed by nature … and I think it could be a good thing…
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We may already have heard the best album of 2023. Iceland-born Bára Gísladóttir is a composer and double bassist who calls Copenhagen home now. She produces solo works, and collaborates with Skúli Sverrisson and the Elja Ensemble. Gísladóttir also performs with the Copenhagen Philharmonic and other orchestras. SILVA is a 57-plus-minute force of nature. A…
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We’re getting a new album from Piano and Coffee label boss Sergio Dìaz De Rojas on Mar. 10, via the Nettwerk label. Its title is Muerte en una tarde de verano, or Death in a Summer’s Afternoon. De Rojas says the new album was composed in honour of his grandfather Otto – also a musician…
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Tunisian composer Haythem Mahbouli will release a concept album about the end of humankind on Dec. 2. Last Man On Earth will be released by Schole Records. “The recording rockets us into the future of a hostile earth wherein humanity itself faces extinction,” says Mahbouli. “The album envisions man’s final journey on our home planet…
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Canadian composer and violinist Alexandra Stréliski has signed with XXIM Records/Sony Masterworks. In a media release, the company described her as “a trailblazing woman in the modern classical world,” and said that her “emotionally striking music has enthralled listeners the world over.” We first wrote about the Montrealer in 2018, after the release of her…
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