West Fourth New Music: Cellophilia

By Bèla Bianca, 15 June 2012

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Reviewed at The 92nd Street Y: Kaufmann Concert Hall, New York City on 8 June 2012

Snider, The Reserved, the Reticent

Campbell, Ice Covers the North

Zorn, 777 (nothing is true, everything is permitted)

Shemesh, Empty City

Frey, Canon Prelude

Karpay, Three Programmatic Duos

Gordon, Light is Calling

Hansen, Traveller

Reich, Cello Counterpoint version for amplified cello & cello octet

Ashley Bathgate, Cello

Hannah Collins, Cello

Amanda Gookin, Cello

Robert Karpay, Cello

Susan D. Mandel, Cello

Mariel Roberts, Cello

Brian Snow, Cello

Richard Vaudrey, Cello

Brooke Campbell, Vocals

Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’

Nick Boston, 16th April

The Academy of Ancient Music poses the question what might have been in Leipzig with stunning performances of Bach and his competitors to be the new Thomaskantor.

*****

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

****1

A special relationship renewed: Leonard Slatkin returns to Prague

Frank Kuznik, 16th April

Leonard Slatkin returns to the Prague Symphony Orchestra with one of his own pieces, a Schubert tribute that steals the show.

****1

Kinan Azmeh offers a sampling of delights with St Luke’s

No’a L. bat Miri, 15th April

As part of St Luke’s ‘Visionary Sounds’ series, Kinan Azmeh joined the chamber ensemble to play a variety of his own compositions.

****1

Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham

Robert Gainer, 15th April

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the drama compete with the romance of Respighi?

****1

Tharaud and Queyras celebrate 30 years together in Paris

David Karlin, 14th April

Crisp and elegant cello and piano playing is more successful in French and early repertoire than in Brahms.

****1

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