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Opus One. The New Yorker, June 21, 2021. Also: A Listening Guide to Josquin Desprez. Some acknowledgments: I'm grateful first and foremost to Jesse Rodin and Joshua Rifkin, for inviting me into their genially duelling West Coast / East Coast... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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Give me oblivion

The hyper-lyrical, gloriously old-school Russian tenor Ivan Kozlovsky sings an aria from Eduard Nápravik's Dubrovsky (1895). Via the omniaudient David Shengold. Continue reading

Posted Jun 1, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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Bob Dylan at 80

May he keep on keeping on indefinitely. Continue reading

Posted May 24, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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Nightafternight playlist

New and recent releases of interest. Melancholy Grace: music of Frescobaldi, Luzzaschi, Strozzi, Bull, and others; Jean Rondeau (Erato) Richard Barrett, strange lines and distances (via Bandcamp) Chris Cerrone, The Arching Path and other works; Timo Andres, Lindsay Kesselman, Ian... Continue reading

Posted May 22, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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A Matthaeus Pipelare moment

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Posted May 22, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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A Pomponio Nenna moment

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Posted May 22, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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A Kelley Sheehan moment

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Posted May 15, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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For Norman Lloyd

Lloyd, center, in Orson Welles's Julius Caesar, 1937. The great actor, director, producer, and raconteur Norman Lloyd died today, at the age of 106. He spent his last day at his beloved home in Mandeville Canyon, Los Angeles, where he... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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The NY Phil at the Shed

New Stages. The New Yorker, May 10, 2021. Continue reading

Posted May 3, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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Easter and Kassiani

Χριστός ἀνέστη! Today is Easter, and I am thinking of my late mother, who was a devout Greek Orthodox and the granddaughter of a notable priest, Rev. Basilios Lambrides. I'm listening to Hymns of Kassiani, a new disc by the... Continue reading

Posted May 2, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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A Linda Catlin Smith moment

This recent program by Toronto's Thin Edge New Music Collective includes the première of Dark Flower, a major new piano quartet by Smith, alongside pieces by Jonathan Bailey Holland, Sarah Hennies, and Alex Jang. Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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For Christa Ludwig

The genially towering German mezzo-soprano, who sang with an unexampled fusion of power, beauty, passion, and understanding, has died at the age of ninety-three. At the summit of her vast discography stands the greatest of all recordings of Das Lied... Continue reading

Posted Apr 25, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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MaerzMusik in Berlin

The Noise of Time. The New Yorker, April 19, 2021. Continue reading

Posted Apr 12, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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An Odeya Nini moment

From her performances of I See You, during Wild Up's Darkness Sounding festival. Continue reading

Posted Apr 8, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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The great liberal theologian has died at the age of ninety-three. I immediately thought of his remarkable 1982 essay on Parsifal, mention of which I sadly cut from the final draft of Wagnerism. It is a passionate and personal interpretation,... Continue reading

Posted Apr 7, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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An Eastman moment

From Wild Up's vibrant new recording of Femenine. Continue reading

Posted Apr 7, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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A Sebastian Hilli moment

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Posted Apr 6, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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Un moment Mouton

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Posted Apr 4, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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On Mank and Orson Welles

A Cultural Comment on the New Yorker website. Continue reading

Posted Apr 3, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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Das Lied in Cincinnati

Worth watching especially for Sean Panikkar's contribution. Continue reading

Posted Mar 28, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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Andrew McIntosh recital

Featuring music of Leslie Lang, Nicki Chen, Brandon Becker, Tim Feeney, Jacob Grabbe, Eric Lennartson, Daniel Newman-Lessler, Adam Zuckerman, Sara Brown, Nicholas Deyoe, Takemitsu, Bartók, and McIntosh himself. Continue reading

Posted Mar 24, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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Music Regained. The New Yorker, March 22, 2021. Continue reading

Posted Mar 15, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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Two video streams from the Bavarian Radio Symphony give a foretaste of the incipient Simon Rattle era in Munich. The first pairs Messiaen's Et Exspecto with a premiere by Ondřej Adámek; the second makes an unexpected but very Rattlean link... Continue reading

Posted Mar 8, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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An Alvin Singleton moment

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Posted Mar 6, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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A (long) Klaus Lang moment

Ensemble Nikel in Battery Park, at TIME:SPANS 2019. Continue reading

Posted Mar 4, 2021 at Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise

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