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Kronos Quartet

For more than 40 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to continually re-imagining the string quartet experience. In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and influential groups of our time, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 50 recordings of extraordinary breadth and creativity, collaborating with many of the world's most intriguing and accomplished composers and performers, and commissioning more than 850 works and arrangements for string quartet

Gregory Porter, Kronos Quartet, Alberto Pinton, Pat Metheny & More New Releases

By LUDOVICO GRANVASSU

Gregory Porter kicks off the party with his uplifting “Revival Song" while electro-acoustic projects keep the momentum going during the first half and jazz-meets-contemporary music albums take over the second half, including the latest by Pat Metheny first adventure on a new label, Modern Recordings, as well as the celebrated Kronos Quartet in two quite different ...

Ibrahim Maalouf: 40 Melodies

By MATT HOOKE

The age of 40, in America at least, is looked at with fear as the start of middle age. For many, it is a state of limbo; the knee pains say they are not young; however, that black hair says they are not old either. Many people buy a motorcycle or start an ill-conceived fling with ...

World Dialogue

By STEPHAN THELEN

Label: RareNoiseRecords
Released: 2020
Track listing: Circular Lines; Chaconne; World Dialogue; Silesia.

Mark Sullivan's Best Releases of 2020

By MARK SULLIVAN

Despite the circumstances, this was a high volume year for album releases, rich in both quantity and quality. Mine is not a ranked listing, but more or less in reverse chronological order. Since I wrote fewer album reviews than average, for the first time I have included several releases that I did not review myself.

Zappa

By IAN PATTERSON

Alex Winter Zappa Magnolia Pictures 2020 Composer, guitarist and iconoclast nonpareil, Frank Zappa was never an easy artist to pin down, as Alex Winter's perceptive and entertaining documentary makes abundantly clear. If an artist's music should speak for itself, what are we to make of Zappa's freakish '60s collage ...

Stephan Thelen: World Dialogue

By MARK SULLIVAN

Stephan Thelen's compositions for his band Sonar have a minimalist groove that clearly relates to other groups in the experimental sphere like Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch's band Ronin. These works for string quartet are not stylistically far removed from Thelen's Sonar music, but the classical chamber music context establishes them in the world occupied ...

“Ho ucciso i Beatles” con Sarah Jane Morris a Jesi

By LIBERO FARNè

Pergolesi Spontini Festival Teatro Pergolesi Jesi 12.9.2020 Singolare e notevole lo spettacolo proposto a Jesi all'interno della ventesima edizione del Pergolesi Spontini Festival: un atto unico di Stefano Valanzuolo, con la regia e progetto scenico di Pierluigi Iorio, che prevede un'interazione fra un quartetto d'archi, una cantante e una voce recitante. ...

Playing For Keeps: Improvisation In The Aftermath

By IAN PATTERSON

Playing For Keeps: Improvisation In The Aftermath Edited by Daniel Fischlin & Eric Porter 352 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4780-0814-9 Duke University Press 2020 Musical improvisation is often described as a conversation. A universal language. Musicians trading back and forth seem to be having a blast, which, on occasion, for ...

Sun Rings

By KRONOS QUARTET

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Sun Rings Overture; Hero Danger; Beebopterismo; Planet Elf Sindoori; Earth Whistlers; Earth/Jupiter Kiss; The Electron Cyclotron Frequency Parlour; Prayer Central; Venus Upstream; One Earth, One People, One Love.