Donald Berman, pianoWho can say how many little gems of works (and many probably not so little, too) penned by composers famous and unknown alike are hidden away in boxes, libraries, and attics, left undiscovered, …

Kevin McCutcheon (piano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Christopher Wilkins, conductorThe horrors of World War II created so much great music both then and now, everything from Reich’s Different Trains and Penderecki’s Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima …

The New Haven-based Persinger defines his solo guitar music as “Modern/Primitive”; his is an outsider music that is equal parts folk, classical, DIY rock, jazz, and in this case, bossa nova.
—FJO

Though truly a man-meets-machine piece of music—a sensor “listens” to the solo performer and relays information to a computer which has been programmed to respond—the result feels as organic and inspired as any human duet. …

For some reason hearing this less-than-perfect-sounding archival recording of Steve Reich’s 1973 Six Pianos from a live performance at The Kitchen makes the piece even more tactile than the original Deutsche Grammophone studio recording; it’s …

In the brief artist comments that accompany this disc—recorded live at the Prism in Charlottesville, Virginia—William Parker shares his philosophy that if “every human being in the world played one hour of music at the …

Easily the most beautiful thing I heard all week, Fox’s haunting memorial for his friend, composer/performer John Kuhlman (1954-1996), scored for four cellos and double bass is deep on so many levels. It’s featured on …

Madeleine Shapiro, cello

Though composer Ge Gan-ru, considered by many to be China’s first avant-garde composer, crossed the Pacific before the Tan Dun-Bright Sheng-Chen Yi cavalcade, Madeleine Shapiro’s aggressive performance of his Yi Feng for amplified …

Ariel String Quartet
D’Arcy Reynolds’s music defies listeners to guess when it was written. At times completely immersed in the past, while soon thereafter totally contemporary. Although her music defies time, today is her birthday. The …

Robert Spring, clarinet; ProMusica Chamber Orchestra conducted by Timothy Russell

The way Peter Schickele has incorporated Philip Glass-influenced melodies into the otherwise non-minimalist music he writes under his own name (rather than as PDQ) shows how …