performed by Andrea Lucchesini (cover image by Aaron Blanco Tejedor) Berio’s Encores are relatively short pieces composed over a three decades, and provide a pretty wide-ranging vocabulary for the performer. For the brevity of the individual pieces, they provide a really wonderful … Continue reading Berio: Six Encores
performed by the Smith Quartet, or below by the Kronos Quartet (cover image by Oskar Krawczyk) Philip Glass’s third string quartet is in many ways (at least spiritually) related to the second. That work was to be incidental music for … Continue reading Glass String Quartet no. 3, ‘Mishima’
performed by the Kronos Quartet and Aki Takahashi or below from the Midsummer Chamber Music Festival at the Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland Morton Feldman was born on January 12, 1926 and is considered “a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with … Continue reading Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet
Fugue for Thought 