From an article by the singer Ian Bostridge in Prospect magazine: I only met Pierre Boulez (born 1925) once, and the circumstances were not propitious. Back in 2010, I’d been asked to sing in Stravinsky’s […]
Critic Jennifer Wood attended Riccardo Muti’s festival rollout of Osvaldo Golijov’s long-delayed new work. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra returned this weekend to Symphony Center where Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti presented a commissioned […]
Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson: Stífluhringurinn; Caput Ensemble; Carrier RecordsReviewed 18 June 2024 Music like no other. The Icelandic composer returns with a long, single work for large ensemble that mines his fondness for contemplating timbres and […]