Dutchman Joep Beving releases his fifth album on Deutsche Grammophon, “Hermetism”. The surprise effect of Joep Beving‘s irruption onto the international scene of contemporary classical music is long gone, although in Spain, however, he has not yet achieved the popularity he enjoys in Central Europe. On 8 April, he released…

The Bozzini Quartet releases “Tom Johnson: Combinations” by the American minimalist. Tom Johnson (Greeley, Colorado, 1939) is one of the essential figures of the minimalist music scene. As a composer, he was a student of Morton Feldman and was also the author of the first minimalist opera in history, The…

Deutsche Grammophon releases Jóhann Jóhannsson’s “Drone Mass”. Most people probably hadn’t heard of Jóhann Jóhannsson before he won the Golden Globe in January 2015 for his score for The Theory of Everything, James Marsh’s film based on the life of Stephen Hawking. However, the Icelandic composer, who died in 2018…

El pianista Ralph van Raat publica su segundo disco con música de Joep Franssens. Joep Franssens (Groningen, Netherlands, 1955) is one of today’s leading Dutch composers. A student of Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and influenced by the minimalist generation, he is often regarded as a…

French pianist Vanessa Wagner releases a new album of her post-minimalist repertoire. Until recently, Europe was the stronghold of contemporary classical orthodoxy, the one of the thread that starts with Schönberg and reaches, to put a limit, to Adès, passing through Stravinski, Messiaen, Boulez, Stockhausen, Murail, Rihm or Dusapin. However,…

Belgian composer and pianist Wim Mertens releases his 66th album, “Heroides”, today. Belgian pianist and composer Wim Mertens has today released his new album, Heroides, the sixty-sixth of his prolific career, through Warner Music Spain. The title refers to the Heroides or Epistulae Heroidum, a collection of elegiac poems written by Ovid – the Roman poet born…

Bang on a Can publishes a new version of Terry Riley’s “Autodreamographical Tales”. Terry Riley, one of the most influential musicians on the planet and father of minimalism, releases today, through the Cantaloupe Music label, his new album Autodreamographical Tales. In fact, it is a new version of a project…

“Underwater”, Ludovico Einaudi’s first solo piano album in twenty years.   Underwater, the latest album by Ludovico Einaudi, is the first solo piano album he has released in twenty years (the previous one, I giorni, appeared in 2001) and the direct result of worldwide confinement during the spring of 2020,…

Spanish ambient guitarist Suso Saiz releases his new solo album “Resonant Bodies”. Since the early eighties, Suso Saiz (Cádiz, 1957) has published metaphysical ambient chronicles of the imagination, avant-garde minimalist music. First with Orquesta de las Nubes and then solo, always interspersed with collaborations with musicians from similar orbits, from…

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato premieres a piece by British composer Rachel Portman. Last Friday saw the release of Eden, the new album by the American coloratura mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato (Prairie Village, Kansas, 1969). Known for her interpretations of Mozart, Handel or Rossini, the new album offers, however, a great novelty: the…

American experimental flautist Laura Cocks makes her solo debut with “Field Anatomies”. American flautist Laura Cocks is also the executive director of TAK Ensemble, a New York chamber quintet (percussion, violin, voice, clarinet and flute) specialising in the performance of the most experimental music being made today. Although TAK has…

Orange Mountain Music publica el álbum con la «Sinfonía nº 12 “Lodger”» de Philip Glass. Philip Glass had premiered seven operas before he decided to compose his First Symphony “Low” in 1992. And for that event he chose to take as his starting point Low, the first of the albums…