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Lorelei Ensemble will release the world premiere recording of Christopher Cerrones Beaufort Scales on Friday, May 17, 2024 on the Cold Blue Music record label. Learn more about the album!

Classical chamber music, pianistic impressionism and two intriguing box sets Reviews by Graham Rickson

The trio burst on to the mid-70s scene only for their label to bury their debut. As it resurfaces, singer Paul Southwell looks back at a band who would have changed LGBTQ+ history

British and Latvian orchestral music, plus new commissions for solo violin. Classical CDs review by Graham Rickson

This week, the editors recall scholar Branden W. Joseph’s essay “Dark Energy: The Art of Marco Fusinato” from February 2011. Recently for artforum.com, Adam Jasper wrote about Fusinato’s two-hundred-day performance at the Australian pavilion as part of the 2022 Venice Biennale.Joseph’s expansive essay introduced Artforum’s readers to Australian artist and noise musician Marco Fusinato, whose work engages and tests the bounds of radical political and aesthetic acts inside of capitalis...

Time of her death. >> todd: meantime, a los angeles prosecutor blasting progressive politics after the city saw two women murdered at the hands of men with previous circle records. >> carley: coming as police confirmed they arrested a killer in the murder of 24-year-old u c.l.a. student brean acomfer. the us district attorney joins us now. i want to start there with the arrest of sean laval smith arrested for rted murder of brianna. theres a mon stage of mug shots that span several years, why wa...

Composer Christopher Cerrone Announces New Album On In A Circle Records The warm, resonant and rhythmic music on The Arching Path is inspired by Cerrones travels to Italy and composed between 2010 and 2016.by BWW News Desk In a Circle Records will present composer Christopher Cerrones latest album, The Arching Path. A follow-up to Cerrones 2019 GRAMMY-nominated The Pieces that Fall to Earth, The Arching Path is a piano-driven, electro-acoustic album of chamber music featuring pianist Timo Andr...

Pipa Virtuoso Wu Man And Shakuhachi Master Kojiro Umezakis Album Flow To Be Wu Man, "the worlds finest player of the pipa" (The New York Times), is joined by one of her Silkroad Ensemble bandmates, shakuhachi virtuoso Kojiro Umezaki, on a new album, Flow (流芳), released by In a Circle Records (ICR). The album is currently available for pre-order on Bandcamp (digital and physical) and will be available Friday, February 19, through Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, and other major outlets. Drawin...

Hedy Weiss guides an artistic journey towards healing from three sources. by Hedy Weiss on January 25, 2021 Hershey Felder at the piano. Photo courtesy of Hershey Felder. Vaccine or no vaccine, the COVID-19 pandemic is still very much with us, and probably will continue to plague the world for some time to come. But while artists and arts organizations have suffered immensely throughout the past year, they also have refused to be silenced. Theater has adapted itself to the s...

The local recordings that helped us through 2020 By David Weininger Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 12:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Memorable releases came from Thomas Adès, Charles Wuorinen, Transient Canvas, Planetary Candidate, Osvaldo Golijov, and David Lang. Our concert halls went silent in 2020, so it became the year we all had to look elsewhere for musical fulfilment. That meant an almost wholesale migration of live performance to livestreaming, the closest most of us have...