United States Alex Mincek: Alex Mincek (saxophone), Talujon Percussion, Greg Chudzik (bass), Avant Music Festival, Wild Project, New York City. 28.2.2014 (DS)
A Profound Relationship to a Marimba—and Plastic Tubing
Daniele Sahr
Melville’s Whale Spawns a Successor
United States MATA Interval 7.2, Moby Dick: Extracts on Death and Other Curiosities: West Fourth New Music Collective, ISSUE Project Room, New York City. 21.2.2014 (DS)
A Cozy Evening with Von Otter, Ax, and Brahms
United States Brahms, Tor Aulin, Nico Muhly: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-Soprano), Emanuel Ax (piano), Carnegie Hall, New York City. 28.1.2014 (DS)
Rarely Played Tchaikovsky Caps a Puzzling Evening
United States Tcherepnin, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky: Gautier Capuçon (cello), New York Philharmonic, Andrey Boreyko (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, New York City. 25.1.2014 (DS)
An Unusually Adventurous Vocalizing Quartet
United States Lembit Beecher, Chinary Ung, Ken Ueno, Mason Bates: Del Sol String Quartet, Roulette, Brooklyn. 15.1.2014 (DS)
A Willa Cather Tale at the Prototype Festival
United States Gregory Spears, Paul’s Case: Soloists, American Modern Ensemble, Keith Chambers (piano), Kevin Newbury (director), Robert Wood (conductor). HERE, New York City. 13.1.2014 (DS)
Powerful Hallucinations at the Prototype Festival
United States Jonathon Berger, Visitations: “Theotokia” and “The War Reporter”: Soloists, Christopher Rountree (music director). Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, 11.1.2014. (DS)
Mutter and Orkis in a 25th Anniversary Gambol
United States Lutoslawski, Schubert, Penderecki, Previn, Saint-Saëns: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Lambert Orkis (piano). Carnegie Hall, New York City. 14.12.2013 (DS)