Q2 Music Featured Album
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Thomas Adès Explores Time Real and Imagined with the Calder Quartet
Thomas Adès’s newest album, "The Twenty-Fifth Hour," with performances by the Calder Quartet, is a fascinating exploration of time both real and envisioned. Stream it all week. Jun 8, 2015
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NOW Ensemble Blends Upbeat Lyricism and Heady Abstraction in 'Dreamfall'
NOW Ensemble emerged a decade ago as standard bearers, of a sort, for the new kids of new music. Stream their latest anthology of new works, "Dreamfall," all week. Jun 1, 2015
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Bryce Dessner's Mesmerizing Inventions for So Percussion
When composer and rock guitarist Bryce Dessner of the National was asked to write music for So Percussion, he didn't just create a new piece of music. He invented a new instrument. May 25, 2015
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Conspirare Deftly Navigates Joby Talbot's Ambitious 'Path of Miracles'
The spiritually and physically demanding are the source of British composer Joby Talbot’s rousing Path of Miracles, exquisitely realized by Conspirare and Craig Hella Johnson. May 18, 2015
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Paola Prestini's Rhapsodic Installation Concertos for Strings and Electronics
Paola Prestini’s newest video album, "Labyrinth," is composed of two half-hour long solo works for strings and electronics, for cellist Maya Beiser and violinist Cornelius Dufallo. May 11, 2015
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Steve Reich's Masterful Gateway Drug in Assured New Recording
Steve Reich composed "Music for 18 Musicians" some 40 years ago, but it still remains the perfect gateway drug for Reich's music. A new recording by Ensemble Signal shows why. May 4, 2015
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Yotam Haber On Hunger, Migration and the Baroque Doctrine of the Affections
A new album of chamber music from composer Yotam Haber draws on themes of modernist sculpture, Italian Jewish Chant and the Baroque doctrine of the affections. Apr 27, 2015
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Martin Scherzinger's Alternative Calculus in 'African Math'
Composer Martin Scherzinger's new record is an enlightened take on the traditional music of Africa – mostly because his music recognizes that it is not African music. Listen all week. Apr 20, 2015
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Ukraine's Valentin Silvestrov Unleashes One's Inner Synesthete in 'Spectrums'
Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, now pushing 80 years old, has led a long and prolific career traversing a wide range of musical styles. This new album focuses on his early works. Apr 14, 2015
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Royal String Quartet Brings Verve and Polish to Szymański and Mykietyn
The Royal String Quartet from Poland delivers a fine collection of works by contemporary countrymen Paweł Szymański and Paweł Mykietyn. Listen to the full album. Apr 6, 2015