Sidestepping the head-solos-head formula that most jazz piano trios use to death, French-born Romain Collin and his crew of bassist Luques Curtis and drummer Kendrick Scott summon up evocative soundscapes that develop gradually, as on the bombastic “Storm” and the darkly minimalist title track. The pianist flaunts prodigious technique on the kinetic “Runner’s High” and the quirky stop-time vehicle “Pennywise the Clown,” then reveals his classical training on the ruminative, arpeggiated “Strange,” the ambient “Aftermath” and the delicate solo piece “One Last Try,” which bears the stamp of Chopin’s nocturnes. They deliver an instrumental version of John Mayer ...

Works by Chopin were the highlight of a performance by the pianist Louis Lortie, who stepped in for Maurizio Pollini on Sunday at Carnegie Hall.

The Canadian indie rock band, By Divine Right , has been home to a heap of musicians since the front man, José Miguel Contreras , formed it in 1989 with three high school friends. He spoke with us about the upcoming album "Organised Accidents" and what makes the spirit of the band continue to live on. You have a new album coming out. Tell us a bit about that. The new BDR album is called "Organized Accidents", it embodies a philosophy of composition that I have been exploring with BDR . Taking spontaneous recordings, channeled writing and turning them into songs. Even the ...

The Canadian indie rock band, By Divine Right , has been home to a heap of musicians since the front man, José Miguel Contreras , formed it in 1989 with three high school friends. He spoke with us about the upcoming album "Organised Accidents" and what makes the spirit of the band continue to live on. You have a new album coming out. Tell us a bit about that. The new BDR album is called "Organized Accidents", it embodies a philosophy of composition that I have been exploring with BDR . Taking spontaneous recordings, channeled writing and turning them into songs. Even the ...

The classical pianist Evgeny Kissin made a much-anticipated performance of Samuel Barber’s Sonata, along with pieces by Beethoven and Chopin, at Carnegie Hall on Thursday night.

As I’ve said a couple of times before, I was/am a violinist. I’m using past and present tense because I’m not in an orchestra at the moment but I can still pick up my instrument and carry a tune. Without the 8 or so years of orchestra classes/private lessons my music taste would be dramatically different. For one, I would never have met the people who transformed my music taste because we were all in orchestra together. Secondly, I would never have been able to cultivate an appreciation for the complexity and wonder of classical ...

Re-up for aggregation... Two alluring, affecting new-ish collaborations - with  Steinbruechel  ( Seam ) &  Marcus Fischer ( Two / Twenty-Two ) - add further lustre to   Cory Allen 's lovely body of work . While both exhibit what Marc Weidenbaum ( Disquiet ) nicely terms " gentle sonic psychedelics that bring texture to what might otherwise be termed ambient " (in his predictably insightful reflections around Two / Twenty-Two : see below), Seam is distinctive for its happy marriage of intensely detailed, almost gritty microsound with a huge bass rumble.  Two / Twenty-Two , in contrast, deploys a larger, messier palette (twangs & groans, even...) to shape a more urgent, more 'narrative' sound - especially in the second part, Seventy-Seven .  A fair few Allen streams here . Several albums on Spotify too... Blurb: " Fourteen months and countless folders of audio files later, Steinbrüchel and Cory Allen offer their first collaborative album entitled «Seam». An intensive and process driven work period resulted in an album that integrates the two artist's individual soundworlds. Each sound was processed and multiplied by both artists, forming a sound archive of individual threads. The compositions were then sewn and stitched together using the collection of the archive. Connecting each composition is an inbetween thread which weaves the album's tracks together. The «- -- - --» audio process was extended into the design and production of the physical packaging. The cover design is based on a system which reflects the track order and the artists' contributions to the creation of the compositions. " steinbrüchel + cory allen - seam 06 steinbruchel + cory allen - seam 02 <p><p><p><p>&amp ...

The pianist Richard Goode explored Schumann and Chopin in the 1840s for his concert at Carnegie Hall.

Two alluring, affecting new-ish collaborations - with  Steinbruechel  ( Seam ) &  Marcus Fischer ( Two / Twenty-Two ) - add further lustre to   Cory Allen 's lovely body of work . While both exhibit what Marc Weidenbaum ( Disquiet ) nicely terms " gentle sonic psychedelics that bring texture to what might otherwise be termed ambient " (in his predictably insightful reflections around Two / Twenty-Two : see below), Seam is distinctive for its happy marriage of intensely detailed, almost gritty microsound with a huge bass rumble.  Two / Twenty-Two , in contrast, deploys a larger, messier palette (twangs & groans, even...) to shape a more urgent, more 'narrative' sound - especially in the second part, Seventy-Seven .  A fair few Allen streams here . Several albums on Spotify too... Blurb: " Fourteen months and countless folders of audio files later, Steinbrüchel and Cory Allen offer their first collaborative album entitled «Seam». An intensive and process driven work period resulted in an album that integrates the two artist's individual soundworlds. Each sound was processed and multiplied by both artists, forming a sound archive of individual threads. The compositions were then sewn and stitched together using the collection of the archive. Connecting each composition is an inbetween thread which weaves the album's tracks together. The «- -- - --» audio process was extended into the design and production of the physical packaging. The cover design is based on a system which reflects the track order and the artists' contributions to the creation of the compositions. " steinbrüchel + cory allen - seam 06 steinbruchel + cory allen - seam 02 <p><p><p><p>&amp ...

Dryhump Champion: Mix Chopin – When I’m With You (Original Mix) (don lowed)

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Some might have been surprised by Genesis co-founder Tony Banks turn toward classical music. But, it turns out, he’d always had an interest in the genre. “As a child my mother used to play classical music,” Banks says. “She was a good pianist. She played a lot of Chopin and that was quite a strong influence. I’ve always liked classical [...]

This weekend a huge music festival spans the entire UK. Tom Service looks at what's on offer at Music Nation " Das Land ohne Musik ". The famous early 20th century German epithet for these isles - "the land without music" - should ring hollow in the mouths of any vestigial culturally chauvinist aesthetes in Germany this weekend. That's because the UK will become, for one weekend only, a Music Nation on Saturday and Sunday, the first nationwide cultural countdown of the 2012 celebrations. Spearheaded by the BBC , Music Nation will be taking over Radio 3's airwaves for the duration, and ...

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The Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes managed to be buttoned-up and exciting at the same time in a solo recital at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday.