new classical Archives

A Heroic Step Forward for Quest Ensemble

14/08/2020

Classical progressives Quest Ensemble's Other Side points us forward from genre to musical discovery. Has classical music rediscovered originality? ...

A Last Minute Change of Heart (James Heather)

14/08/2017

James Heather's beguiling piano etude suggests interesting things to come on Ahead of Our Time records...

Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)

15/11/2016

Dead Light, makers of 2016's intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album....

Who’s Afraid of Tonality? (Max Richter, Sleep @ Barbican)

01/06/2016

As much gig as concert, The Barbican turns to Max Richter for crowd-pulling contemporary performance. Review...

The Homely Path through Chaotic Woods (Nostos)

31/07/2015

A collection of musical pieces which disturb, wrongfoot, disorient and occasionally attack the listener, whilst still being peppered with the ghost of expected song structures ...

Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

16/06/2015

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O'Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition...

Sonically cosmic, if not slightly kosmische [Amon Tobin]

05/06/2015

Tobin modestly describes the release as a “small personal project”, but conceptually at least, it's a major release....

Integration and interrelation between the orchestral and the electronic [Michael Price]

12/03/2015

As an exercise in demonstrating the possibilities of digital/orchestral enmeshment, Entanglement is at the top table. ...

High Definition sonic adventures: Joe Snape in 24-Bit

25/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”N/dropcapaysayers love to make sweeping judgements about 24-bit sound reproduction. The physical capabilties of the human ear provide a...