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Fred Hersch, 'Solo,' Palmetto Records (REVIEW)

Pianist Fred Hersch, 59, is gearing up for what promises to be an amazing birthday for his big 6-0. First comes 'Solo' (Palmetto Records), a gorgeous piano recital recorded live in an old church high atop the Catskill Mountains of New York at last year's Windham Chamber Music Festival. It's his tenth solo CD.
By Mike Greenblatt

  • EXCLUSIVE: John Luther Adams on ‘Sila: The Breath of the World' La Jolla Symphony Performance

    Interview with John Luther Adams about 'Sila: The Breath of the World,' a site-determined piece to be performed by the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus in San Diego on September 27. The free concert will take place at 3:00 p.m. in the Japanese Friendship Garden of Balboa Park, in celebration of the park's 100th anniversary.
    By Louise Burton

  • PREMIERE: Dan Trueman's Marbles Étude from Nostalgic Synchronic, Adam Sliwinski on bitKlavier

    It's been 11 whole months, yes, since we first saw Sō Percussion's Adam Sliwinski's cross-handed study of Dan Trueman's bitKlavier. Shot then by Troy Herion, with Silwinski patched into his Princeton colleague's "prepared digital piano" via Casio USB for prelude-only, with all the bugs beta-ed out now, watch Silwinski's Roland A-88 shake under the more progressive hammer action of "Marbles"--directed by Evan Chapman. Like Ligeti's last Grawemeyer étude for Boulez from Book One, but played by the Synclavier I from Boulez conducts Zappa, lest you think Dan Trueman's lost his own here, well, just press play.
    By Logan K. Young