New York’s SONIC festival breaks sound barriers

By Alexandra Ivanoff, 26 October 2015

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Reviewed at Roulette, Brooklyn on 20 October 2015

Fear, NY's alright if you like saxophones

Kallmyer, this nest, swift passerine

Tholl, Three Mediations on California Girls

Tholl, corpus callosum

Holter, Endless Song for the End of Summer

Hill, In Memoriam My Liver

Misfits, Where Eagles Dare

McIntosh, Yelling Into the Wind

Deyoe, A New Anxiety

Wild Up

Christopher Rountree, Conductor, Artistic Director

Brian Walsh, Saxophone

Archie Carey, Bassoon

Richard Valitutto, Piano

Jonah Levy, Trumpet

Biber’s life of Christ falls on contemporary ears

Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd March

Some 350 years after their composition, Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas might not retain their all of their mysteries, but their beauty is eternal.

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Biber’s life of Christ falls on contemporary ears

Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd March

Some 350 years after their composition, Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas might not retain their all of their mysteries, but their beauty is eternal.

****1

Biber’s life of Christ falls on contemporary ears

Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd March

Some 350 years after their composition, Heinrich Biber’s Rosary Sonatas might not retain their all of their mysteries, but their beauty is eternal.

****1

Redemption and musical caffeine: Nelsons conducts Mahler 8 in Vienna

Mark Pullinger, 10th May

Sunday morning Mahler at the Wiener Konzerthaus sees Andris Nelsons concluding his symphony cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic in shattering fashion.

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Expressive 18th-century music from the Belgrade Philharmonic

Peter Connors, 8th May

Julien Chauvin leads the Belgrade Philharmonic in spirited performances of varied music by CPE Bach and Haydn, with local star flautist Ana Kaličanin Radivojević as soloist.

****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.

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Alexandra Ivanoff

Alexandra Ivanoff is an American journalist who, after singing for five seasons with the San Francisco Opera, lived for eight years in Istanbul, where she began her career as a music journalist with Time Out magazine and Today's Zaman newspaper in that city. After one year in Berlin and now in Budapest, she reviews from various cities and festivals in Europe, as well as Istanbul, New York, and Los Angeles. She has degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music in NY and Yale University Graduate School of Music.