“Urban Season”, by Timespine. The Portuguese trio Timespine was founded in 2013 by three musicians from different backgrounds: Adriana Sá (zither and electronics), John Klima…
“A Different Forest”, by Hauschka. Until the mid-1990s, Volker Bertelmann (Kreuztal, 1966) played keyboards in a German hip-hop group called God’s Favourite Dog. The new…
“À Quia • Aufgang…”, de Pascal Dusapin. One of the great French composers between the 20th and 21st centuries, Dusapin (Nancy, 1955) belongs to that…
“Arche”, by Jörg Widmann. The Elbe Philharmonic, Hamburg’s spectacular concert hall designed by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, was inaugurated in January…
“Erinnerungsspuren”, by Alberto Posadas. The composer Alberto Posadas (Valladolid, 1967), winner of the 2011 National Music Prize for composition, is one of the few Spanish…
“Fallen Trees”, by Lubomyr Melnyk. The Canadian pianist and composer (although of Ukrainian origin and born in Munich in 1948) Lubomyr Melnyk is known for…
“Pillars”, by Tyshawn Sorey. Black American composer Tyshawn Sorey (Newark, 1980) has outdone himself. Known as a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, his classical and jazz training also…
«Songs and Structures», de Harold Meltzer. Short-listed for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music (won by Steve Reich with Double Sextet), the American Harold Meltzer…
“Structures of Light and Spruce”, by Malin Bång. Swedish composer Malin Bång (Sävedalen, 1974) is one of the most powerful personalities on the international experimental…
“Again and Again”, by Company of Music. The Little Match Girl is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most famous (and sad) fairy tales and the starting…