The German video label C Major is releasing Olga Neuwirth’s “Orlando” on DVD and Blue Ray. Joshua Barone said it two and a half years ago in his review in The New York Times about the premiere of Olga Neuwirth‘s opera Orlando at the Vienna State Opera: that it was…

“The Writings”, David Lang’s work on the Hebrew Old Testament, published by Pentatone. In 2005, David Lang, one of the three founding composers of the New York cultural institution Bang on a Can, began to develop a series of choral pieces based on texts taken from books of the Old…

“Reich/Richter”, the work Steve Reich wrote on the basis of G. Richter’s painting, published. Nonesuch Records today released the first recording of Reich/Richter, the work Steve Reich composed for a multimedia show created for the opening of the New York cultural centre The Shed, which ran from 6 April to…

Trost Records posthumously releases Hermann Nitsch’s “Weinviertel Sinfonie”. Almost a year ago, on 28 August 2021, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Mautner, premiered Hermann Nitsch’s Weinviertel Sinfonie at the Nitsch Museum in Mistelbach, Austria. The eighty-minute work in six movements – his second symphony for string orchestra…

Bertrand Chamayou published in Erato the “Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus” by Messiaen. Composed in 1944, the cycle of Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (Twenty glances on the Infant Jesus) is one of the great works of the piano repertoire, being on a par with such fundamental pieces as Bach’s The Well-Tempered…

The German label Bureau B reissues “Iceland”, the album by Richard Pinhas released in 1979. Today you can read on the Rockdelux website my commentary on Iceland, the re-release by Bureau B of the album originally published in 1979 by Richard Pinhas, one of the great French guitarists of that…

Third Coast Percussion releases “Perspectives”, with works by Glass, Jlin, Elfman and Flutronix. Percussion-only ensembles were not common in Western classical music until the second half of the 20th century, and their creation was boosted by the experimental works composed for percussion by Iannis Xenakis and later, in the 1970s,…

World Edition releases “Die Verwandlung des Zornes”, Rupert Huber’s shamanic rituals. The German record label World Edition, directed by the Spanish-German artist and composer María de Alvear (Madrid, 1960), has just released the album Die Verwandlung des Zornes, by the Austrian composer Rupert Huber, at the end of April. In…

Arín Dodó’s latest album. Last May 6th, the polyhedric and always surprising Javier Entonado (Arín Dodó) published on Bandcamp his new album. Twelve pieces recorded between 2012 and 2021. With a stunning cover designed by Carlos del Olmo and with the collaboration of a group of excellent musicians: Ruvenigue, Quique…

French composer René Aubry releases his 25th album, “I Sing My Song”. René Aubry (Remiremont, 1956) is a French composer and self-taught guitarist, known mainly for his compositions for dance, theatre and film. An admirer of Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass and the Greek composer Mános Hatzidákis, his meeting in 1978…

Jordan Dykstra releases his album “Out of Our Hands”, co-composed with late Alvin Lucier. Jordan Dykstra (1985, Sioux City, Iowa) is one of the most restless composers on the American experimental scene, a student of, among others, Michael Pisaro, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Ulrich Krieger and Alvin Lucier, whom he had…