RVNG Intl. releases a retrospective box set of late Pauline Anna Strom’s work, including a previously unreleased album. You can already read on the Rockdelux website my review on Echoes, Spaces, Lines, the retrospective box set released by RVNG Intl. that includes her first three albums – Trans-Millenia Consort, Plot…

Canadian composer Sarah Davachi publishes “Long Gradus. Arrangements”, originally composed for the Bozzini Quartet. You can now read on the Rockdelux website my review of Long Gradus. Arrangements, the four-CD box set (and four and a half hours of music) of compositions for four different types of acoustic instrument ensembles…

Quatuor Molinari releases the second volume of Philip Glass’ “Complete String Quartets”. A year and a half ago we commented on this website about the release of the first volume of Philip Glass‘ String Quartets by the Molinari Quartet, which included numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4, and a second…

Pat Posey publishes “they/beast”, which includes Philip Glass’ thirteen “Melodies for saxophone” arranged for tubax. The American saxophonist, clarinetist and tubax player Pat Posey (Columbus, Ohio, 1978) -founder of LARQ (Los Angeles Reed Quintet) and member of Le Train Bleu, as well as guest saxophonist for Wild Up on the…

Violinist Angèle Dubeau records her second album of Philip Glass covers with the ensemble La Pietà. Angèle Dubeau is a Canadian classical violinist. In 1997 she founded the all-female string ensemble La Pietà. In addition to their extensive classical repertoire, Dubeau and La Pietà frequently turn to contemporary music, sometimes…

Philip Glass and the Scotsman Paul Leonard-Morgan compose the soundtrack for the John le Carré documentary “The Pigeon Tunnel”. This past week saw the premiere on Apple TV+ of the documentary The Pigeon Tunnel, based on the autobiography The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From my Life (Viking Books, 2016) written by…

The Fanfare Cincinnati label releases David Lang’s “Man Made”, performed by Sõ Percussion and the CSO. Premiered at the Barbican Centre in London in May 2013 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the American percussion quartet Sõ Percussion, David Lang composed Man Made with Philip Glass’s Concerto Fantasy for Two…

The Bedroom Community label releases the music Nico Muhly has composed for the immersive audiovisual exhibition on David Hockney, on view in London until December. Last January, The Lightroom, a new gallery designed especially for immersive art exhibitions, opened its doors in London, in the King’s Cross district, with an…

Scottish composer Stuart MacRae releases a mostly vocal album for Australian mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean. Scottish composer Stuart MacRae (Inverness, 1976) is one of the most difficult composers of his generation to pigeonhole. His orchestral oeuvre includes symphonies and operas in many different styles, but his interest in choral music has…

The Finnish label Ondine releases “The Sound of Wings” by Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits, dedicated to the memory of Amelia Earhart. Composer Tõnu Kõrvits (Tallinn, 1969) is one of the emblematic figures of the post-Arvo Pärt generation of Estonian musicians. A member of the Estonian Composers’ Union since 1994 and…

Welsh guitarist Gerard Cousins releases “The Poet Acts”, his second album of guitar transcriptions of pieces by Philip Glass. Guitar versions of Philip Glass’s works are not very common – among the best known are the Dublin Guitar Quartet’s versions of Glass’s String Quartets 2, 3, 4 and 5 –…

The Norwegian label LAWO Classics and Berlin’s bastille musique release two different records of pieces by Gérard Grisey. Coincidentally or not –and almost coinciding with the release of the biography of Gérard Grisey by the American journalist Jeffrey Arlo Brown, The Life and Music of Gérard Grisey–, just a few…