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

Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 19th April

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

*****

Nicholas McGegan brings delicacy and elegance to Mendelssohn

Erica Miner, 18th April

The Seattle Symphony offers an enchanting evening immersed in the joy and brilliance of both the young and the mature genius of Felix Mendelssohn.

****1

Wrangling the octopus: Mahler’s Ninth with Sir Simon Rattle

Chanda VanderHart, 17th April

Less a symphony, more a force of nature, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a turbulent, yet spacious reading of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in the Musikverein.

****1

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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.