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  • #ClassicsaDay #Classical1921 Week 2

    Jan 15th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #Classical1921, #ClassicsaDay, Arnold Schoenberg, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Frederick Delius, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Igor Stravinsky, Twitter

    What better way to celebrate a new year than with a look back? In this case, the Classics a Day team decided to go back 100 years. For January 2021 the challenge is to post works that were completed in or recordings released in 1921. It turns out there was quite a lot going on […]

  • New Jazz Adds – 1/12/2021

    Jan 13th, 2021 | By Dave Rogers

    New Jazz Adds – 1/12/2021 Craig Brenner – Passages (Self-produced): “Craig Brenner explores the jazzy side of blues and boogie woogie piano. Called “a fine and funky pianist” by Living Blues, Craig has received multiple Indiana Arts Commission grants and he has been voted “Best Musician” in Bloomington, IN, in the Bloomington Independent; Craig & The Crawdads has […]

  • New Blues News – 1/12/2021

    Jan 13th, 2021 | By Dave Rogers

    New Blues News – 1/12/2021 John Fusco & The X-Road Riders – John The Revelator (Self-produced): “More than three decades after a teenaged Fusco ran away from his New England home to Louisiana and the Mississippi Delta — returning with a semi-autobiographical screenplay called Crossroads (and an unlikely discovery as a Hollywood screenwriter) — the […]

  • Karan Casey drops in at WTJU, January 21

    Jan 12th, 2021 | By WTJU
    Tags: Blue Rige Irish Music School, BRIMS, Folk & Byeond, Karan Casey, Solas, WTJU, WTJU Folk

    Karan Casey, a founding member of the Irish supergroup Solas, long recognized as one of the most innovative, provocative and imitated voices in Irish traditional and folk music, will drop in at WTJU on Thursday, January 21, at 4 pm (eastern) to kick off Folk & Beyond as she chats about her upcoming concert and […]

  • Pancho Vladigerov Reissue Series Leads With Piano Concertos

    Jan 12th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Alexander Vladigerov, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capriccio, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, contemporary classical music, Ivan Drenikov, Krassimir Gatev, Pancho Vladigerov, Teador Moussev

    In his native Bulgaria, composer and pianist Pancho Vladigerov is considered a national treasure. A treasure, perhaps, that was a little too closely guarded until now. For some reason, it’s always been difficult to access Vladigerov’s music outside of his Bulgaria. Thanks to Capriccio, the world will finally discover what it’s been missing. This release […]

  • Hour 24 Tenor Titans – The Many Sides of Chris Potter

    Jan 12th, 2021 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Aziza, Benjamin Boone, Chris Potter, Craig Taborn, Dave Holland, David Virelles, Eric Harland, Larry Grenadier, Lionel Loueke, Paul Motian, Philip Levine, Renee Rosnes

    Chris Potter Chris Potter came on the scene in the early 1990s and proceeded to collaborate with a “Who’s Who” of modern jazz including Paul Motian, Patricia Barber, Renee Rosnes, Billy Hart, Dave Douglas, Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, and Pat Metheny. While his work as a leader is highly celebrated earning him standing among the […]

  • Porfeti della Quinta perfectly perform Philippe Verdelot

    Jan 11th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, choral music, Classical music, Elam Rotem, Pan Classics, Philippe Verdelot, Porfeti della Qunta, renaissance music

    Philippe Verdelot one of the composers credited with developing the Italian madrigal. Though French, he spent most of his professional life in Florence. His publications spread throughout Europe and set the model for this Renaissance vocal form. Verdelot wrote mostly five- and six-voice madrigals. This release features some of his less-common four-voice madrigals. They were […]

  • #ClassicsaDay #Classical1921 Week 1

    Jan 8th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #Classical1921, #ClassicsaDay, Aaron Copland, Charles Villiers Stanford, Classical music, Nicolai Medtner, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Theodore Ardorno, Twitter

    What better way to celebrate a new year than with a look back? In this case, the Classics a Day team decided to go back 100 years. For January 2021 the challenge is to post works that were completed in or recordings released in 1921. It turns out there was quite a lot going on […]

  • El Canto del Cisne Negro – Latin-American music that merits attention

    Jan 7th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Ars Produktion, CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Hugo Llanos Campos, Jose Elizondo, Nicole Pena Comos, Noteworthy Release

    In the liner notes, the artists write they’re presenting “a collection of largely unknown works for violoncello and piano from Latin America…[These composers] traveled to Europe, where they found themselves torn between their admiration for the culture and their nostalgia for… their own cultural roots. We share their experience, and their music resonated deeply with […]

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