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GORDON Dystopia. Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
Bamberger Symphoniker | David Robertson | Jonathan Nott | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Best known for his work with ensembles (not least in Bang on a Can), Michael Gordon is no slouch when...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2015
PICKER Fantastic Mr Fox (Rose)
Opera has done much during the past few decades to shed its elite, high-art credentials. In many ways, children’s opera...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2019
Cello Libris: Works by Geoffrey Gordon
This is apparently the first release to be dedicated to Geoffrey Gordon (b1968), though the composer has built up a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020
Getty Joan and the Bells
The Russian National Orchestra gave the world première of Joan and the Bells in September 1998 and now present it...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 9/2003
Gordon Trance
Here is another consignment of belligerent ‘crossover’, the hard minimalism fostered by New York’s Bang on a Can Festival –...
Reviewed in issue 2/1997
Gordon Decasia
Basel Sinfonietta | Kasper de Roo
There are people I respect who seem convinced that the belligerent crossover of Michael Gordon and his pals from New...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2002
Gordon Trance
New York’s Bang On A Can and the London-based Icebreaker are both composer-performer co-operatives specialising in post-Minimalist and Post-Modernist music...
Reviewed by bwitherden in issue: 3/2004
Born in Dirt An Din (Mr McFall's Chamber)
Jazz has long been associated with dirt and din, its angst-ridden scores providing appropriate atmospheric backdrops to innumerable city noir...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2019
Mr Handel's Dinner (Maurice Steger)
La Cetra Baroque Orchestra | Maurice Steger
Swiss recorder supremo Maurice Steger’s latest offering is a fun-filled imagining of the sorts of musical interludes that might have...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2019
LINDBERG The Erratic Dreams of Mr Grönstedt
Emil Jonason | Norrköping Symphony Orchestra | Vamlingbo Quartet
Of these two composers inspired to some extent by dreams, it’s the more easy-going Christian Lindberg who suggests that his...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2017
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