New York’s Glass Farm Ensemble

By Kurt Gottschalk, 30 June 2019

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Reviewed at Peter Norton Symphony Space, New York City on 27 June 2019

Matthusen, In Absentia

Ablinger, Voices and Piano

Corrales, Folk You Too!

Moser, An Anecdote, a Poem and a Scene

Demierre, 17, for 4 instruments

Hoffman, La vie est facile ne t'inquiète pas

Pauline Kim Harris, Violin

Alice Teyssier, Flute

Marianna Gythfeldt, Clarinet

Yvonne Troxler, Piano

ICE shows a new and exciting side of Dai Fujikura at Miller Theatre

Kurt Gottschalk, 5th March

Building on 15 years of collaboration with the ensemble, Gilded Wings (for two clarinets and strings) revealed a new maturity in Fujikura's always enjoyable music.

*****

Sounds of darkness in Cantata Profana's “Visions of Silence”

Kurt Gottschalk, 18th January

An eerie program of resonant sounds and sacred songs overtakes New York’s St Peter's Chelsea with Alvin Lucier, Salvatore Sciarrino and Galina Ustvokskaya alongside 17th-century works for an evening not short on drama.

****1

New Opera Days in Ostrava

Frank Kuznik, 28th June

A round-up report from the four-day festival of new opera in Ostrava; After four nights of living on the edge, polished, finished pieces will never seem as interesting again.

****1

Classical grace and Romantic eloquence from the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 7th May

The contrasting delights of Schumann, Brahms and Dvořák are powerfully evoked in performances of charm, eloquence and high drama from the Philharmonia, continuing the orchestra’s 80th anniversary celebrations.

****1

Russian Spring: Elder and the Hallé reunite in glorious style

Leighton Jones, 7th May

The music of Glinka, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky fills Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall with mystery, intrigue and jollity.

****1

Spacious Prokofiev from Seong-Jin Cho and the Munich Philharmonic

SangKwon Lee, 6th May

Seong-Jin Cho’s premise in Prokofiev is compelling – to reconcile Russian gravitational attack and monumental construction with clarity, colour and contrapuntal legibility.

***11

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Kurt Gottschalk

Kurt Gottschalk is a journalist and author based in New York City. His writings on contemporary and classical music, jazz and improvisation have been published in outlets throughout Europe and America and he has two volumes of short fiction to his name. He produced and hosted the Miniature Minotaurs radio programme on WFMU and currently hosts Afternoon New Music on WKCR.

New York’s Glass Farm Ensemble takes on unsung compositions of text-based work