“The ensemble’s members are young and hip, and their music reflects those qualities along with elegant musicality, flawless technique, and imaginative programming.”
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“Sometimes cool and occasionally extremely hot, the collection shows a broad swath of influences.”
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“Throughout its half-hour duration the drama does not let up”
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“With Goodyear’s powerful grip over the keyboard and plangent attack — he is a Beethoven specialist after all — the pianist captures the sheer horror of Hayden’s lines with fine-tuned precision”
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“Goodyear’s crisply articulated performance is so full of life, so rhythmically buoyant, and the starker colours better allow one to appreciate how individual the piano writing is.”
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“there’s also a great deal of color and variety of mood, from the addictive hook of the percussively driven opening chorus…to tangy harmonies that evoke a cappella period hymns.”
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“AM I BORN” is a meditation on impermanence, using Brooklyn’s past—specifically a neighborhood that was largely demolished to make way for the Brooklyn Bridge—as a means of reflecting on the rapidly changing present.”
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“Not only executed with stunning prowess, Gookin’s dedication to each composer’s voice channels the direct, hard-hitting messages of the compositions, her virtuosity powerfully propelling them even further…”
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“In addition to Gookin's stunning cello playing, the tracks may feature spoken word, singing, electronics, or bass drum, creating a variety of compelling textures.”
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"This song features many lyrics pulled from the memoir of the legendary cellist, Pablo Casals, called 'Joys and Sorrows'.
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“The music is stylistically varied, including stretches of skillfully constructed atonality, effectively creating a mood of turmoil and disease”
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“The work’s therapeutic intentions are underlined by the sensitive, judiciously paced playing of the San Francisco-based Del Sol Quartet who helped develop it in Zoom collaborations with Ruo”
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“Apart from the album's seasonal uses, there are genuinely original ideas here, and those looking for a Christmas release with the side benefit of exploring new ideas will be especially enthusiastic.”
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“Huang intends the work as a meditation on the virus and the vast stretches of time against which it will come to seem insignificant: it is a dust in time.”
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“This features both excellent performances of wonderful 21st-century music and too-necessary commentary about the state of our country”
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“An exceedingly clever case for the continued relevance of Orwellian fables.”
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“Gordon conveys profound and personal truths about the human experience.”
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“Blythe Gaissert became an essential interpreter of contemporary music on The Four Seasons, Looking at You, and her debut solo album”
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"...Finkelmeier and Laurenz create an eerie musical backdrop to explore Hearn’s world, complete with recitations from his writings. It’s ethereal, strange, and hard to get out of your head once you hear it."
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“Their Christmas album is no exception…there’s plenty of variety and the arrangements are all highly original
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