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A sense of optimism infuses Penguin Cafe’s fifth studio album Rain Before Seven… not the braggadocious, overconfident kind, but more a blithe, self-effacing optimism in keeping with the national character. Even when all signs point to the contrary, it ope

First volume of solo piano compositions by Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, finally back in print.

Born to an aristocratic family in Addis Ababa in December of 1923, Emahoy spent much of her youth and young adulthood studying classical music in Europe. She r

Between 1988 and 2010, Steve Reich composed three string quartets – Different Trains, Triple Quartet and WTC 9/11. Deutsche Grammophon now presents this trilogy of works for the first time on one album, in definitive new recordings from the Mivos Quartet.

In the fall of 2021, Simeon ten Holt's "Canto Ostinato" was reborn in a "solo version for seven keyboards". During the weeks leading up to the birth of his son Lark, Erik Hall moved methodically among the instruments in his recording studio, conducting a

Following the 2019 soundtrack release of Matthias & Maxime, Mercury KX deliver Jean-Michel Blais's new LP Aubades. The new album from the Montreal-based icon of modern-classical music shows a new side to the artist. The album features some of his best pia

A re-interpretation so often comes from an impulse, even if subliminal, of one-upmanship – let me do better, wait ‘til you hear it my way. Sometimes though, and it happens too rarely, the cover is an act of devotion in which a musician's humility produces

Over a decade after its inception, ground-breaking composer Max Richter releases Voices – a major new recording project inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In a time of dramatic global change, Voices offers a musical message of hope. Ri

In essence, the sound of the piano comes in two parts: its attack and its decay. The striking of a hammer is followed by the resonance of a string or strings. Much the same might be said about the vibraphone, as it happens. This dual quality of sound come