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March 18th: A Celebration of Andrew Patner.ДЄpril 1st and 2nd: They have appeared on my end-of-year lists twice before, but there is no denying the slow-gathering power of Philippe Herreweghe and the Collegium Vocale Gent in the music of Bach.

Her singing was at once technically impeccable and emotionally raw her music had the weight of a modernist-minimalist song cycle. March 7th: BjГ¶rk, who turned fifty in November, made her Carnegie Hall dГ©but in a program of songs from her latest album, вЂњVulnicura,вЂќ with the backing of string players from Alarm Will Sound. Here are ten notable performances of 2015, with links to reviews. He taught me and countless others that music is, above all, an act of connection. Andrew was different, however his love of music was inseparable from his love of community. The last gesture was especially remarkable, for orchestral players seldom cherish the memory of critics. Leif Ove Andsnes played, via video, the last of SchoenbergвЂ™s Pieces, Opus 19 Riccardo Muti, speaking on tape, dedicated a recording of MozartвЂ™s вЂњSoave sia il ventoвЂќ to AndrewвЂ™s memory musicians from the Chicago Symphony gathered in the hall to play Bach, Mozart, and Brahms. The event that was held in his honor, at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, did more than celebrate a wise, generous, joyous spirit it delivered a musical program of considerable interest. I ask indulgence for the inclusion of a memorial for a close friend: the Chicago-based critic, author, and broadcaster Andrew Patner, who died on February 3rd, at the age of fifty-five.

Together, all this music suggests a world at once hurtling forward and spinning in place-very much the state in which we live. Then again, Andrew NormanвЂ™s вЂњPlayвЂќ and Ted HearneвЂ™s вЂњThe SourceвЂќ offer rapid-shifting textures, spasms of nervous energy. That atmosphere encompasses such otherwise disparate creations as Scott WorthingtonвЂ™s вЂњPrism,вЂќ for solo double bass Michael PisaroвЂ™s вЂњA Mist Is a Collection of Points,вЂќ for piano, percussion, and sine waves and Anna ThorvaldsdottirвЂ™s вЂњIn the Light of Air,вЂќ for instrumental ensemble. Instead, they suggest an ominous stasis, an unstable stillness. Sonic landscapes shimmer before oneвЂ™s ears, but they are too irregular and restless to be classified as minimalist or ambient. Many of these works have an intangible quality in common, one thatвЂ™s hard to name. Generally, it was a formidable year for new music-so much so that my ten notable recordings are entirely contemporary, with dead composers demoted to the honorable-mention category. Sharon is still in the early stage of his career what he will do next is hard to imagine. River-will linger in the memories of those who witnessed them. The set pieces that they created-a trumpet and a trombone sounding from the roofs of warehouses musicians and dancers wending their way through the Bradbury Building a soprano singing in a Jeep that rode alongside the L.A. Six principal composers, of various stylistic backgrounds, lent their voices to the project, revelling in possibilities of mobile, outdoor, antiphonal, and participatory performance. What set it apart from everything else I saw this year was the immense originality of Yuval SharonвЂ™s conception. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.вЂњHopscotch,вЂќ the 'mobile opera' that occupied Los Angeles this fall, left me sufficiently awestruck that I contemplated giving it three places on the following list-one for each of the routes that snaked through the city, carrying audiences in small groups. This commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Recording ofВ SanctuaryВ was supported by the Alice M. вЂњPlenty of people can write a one-off вЂamplifiedвЂ™ piece for chamber musicians, but few artists have built a language as stable and rewarding as Diaz de LeonвЂ™s.вЂќ - Pitchfork вЂњ21st century chamber music that combines crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex.вЂќ - WIRE Magazine Mastered by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio Mixed by Marc Urselli and Mario Diaz de Leon Combining stark rhythms with ecstatic gestures, the piece embraces shifting repetition and shimmering harmonies to dramatic and expansive effect.Д®ngineered by Marc Urselli at East Side Sound вЂњSanctuaryвЂќ is an album length piece created in collaboration with TAK Ensemble, a brilliant NYC based quintet devoted to energetic and virtuosic performances of contemporary music.

#LUCIFORM MARIO DIAZ DE LEON FULL#

For the third full length document of his classical works, Mario Diaz de Leon presents his most substantial offering to date.

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