Q2 Music Featured Album
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir Carves Isolated, Icy Paths With 'In the Light of Air'
Listen to Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir's latest album, "In the Light of Air," this week. Aug 24, 2015
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Composer-Cellist Peter Gregson's Fervid Midnight Rendezvous, "Touch"
Listening to Peter Gregson's "Touch" is a superlative experience, with the luster of Gregson’s cello lines and the tender swells of the strings in panoramic view. Listen all this week. Aug 17, 2015
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Matt Haimovitz Channels Vast Dynamic Range in 4-Hour Retrospective, 'Orbit'
Cellist Matt Haimovitz delivers the bill-paying skills throughout in this considerable, and impressive, retrospective. Listen to the entire album all this week. Aug 11, 2015
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Giacinto Scelsi Puts into Motion That Which Is Motionless
If Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi were alive today, he’d probably be another voice in the demand for music streaming services to get their acts together with classical music. Aug 3, 2015
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Philip Glass Blasts Past Beethoven with Fireworks of 10th Symphony
Philip Glass's working relationship with conductor Dennis Russell Davies brings him back to symphonic form again and again, and he's now written more than Beethoven. Hear #10 all week. Jul 27, 2015
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Nordic Affect Bridges Iceland's Natural and Supernatural
The all-female Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect delivers world premieres of music by five Icelandic composers who share an affinity for the mystical and surreal. Jul 20, 2015
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Capturing the Energy of Improvisation in Thomas Rosenkranz's 'Toward the Curve'
Thomas Rosenkranz gathers seven composers' pieces for solo piano with electronics, interspersed with improvised piano “Interludes” of his own. Jul 13, 2015
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Following Langston Hughes's Musical Treasure Map, 'Ask Your Mama'
How appropriate that the release date of Laura Karpman's new record should arrive right around the birthday of the U.S.: a setting of Langston Hughes's cycle of poems "Ask Your Mama." Jul 7, 2015
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Lisa Bielawa's Knack for Lyricism Revealed in 'Lay of the Love'
Lisa Bielawa is a force to be reckoned with in the new music world - her broadmindedness has served her well as a performer, presenter and composer. Stream her art song album all week. Jun 29, 2015
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Janine Jansen and the Robust Rhetoric of Michel van der Aa's Violin Concerto
There are two elements of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra's "Horizon 6" album that are most gripping: violin soloist Janine Jansen and Michel van der Aa’s USDA-Prime orchestration. Jun 15, 2015