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Best of 2024: The Blind Banister
Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Top Story 12/23/24 Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Top Story 12/23/24

Best of 2024: The Blind Banister

The New York Times, Gramophone, and NPR celebrate The Blind Banister in their "Best of 2024" lists.

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Gramophone: The Blind Banister - Editor’s Choice
Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Top Story 4/19/24 Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Top Story 4/19/24

Gramophone: The Blind Banister - Editor’s Choice

Wonderfully controlled and poised performance by cellist Inbal Segev in Upstate Obscura, Metropolis Ensemble under conductor Andrew Cyr in full control throughout, and the irrepressible Andres on top of his game in The Blind Banister and the solo piano piece Colorful History, I cannot recommend this album highly enough.

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The Guardian: The Blind Banister – Original, Arresting and Eclectic
Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/28/24 Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/28/24

The Guardian: The Blind Banister – Original, Arresting and Eclectic

“These three works from Timo Andres showcase the US composer’s distinctive and accomplished musical language… It’s a highly accomplished disc all round.”

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Multigifted Timo Andres Morphs From Pianist To Composer For Premiere
Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/27/24 Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/27/24

Multigifted Timo Andres Morphs From Pianist To Composer For Premiere

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Composer/Pianist Timo Andres Is Having a Week
Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/19/24 Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/19/24

Composer/Pianist Timo Andres Is Having a Week

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Two Sides of Timo Andres
Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/18/24 Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/18/24

Two Sides of Timo Andres

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Gravitating towards American music – interview with Timo Andres
Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/18/24 Album News, Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews Katherine Fortunato 3/18/24

Gravitating towards American music – interview with Timo Andres

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NPR: 50 Albums Coming Out This Spring
Album News, Album Quotes, Albums Katherine Fortunato 3/12/24 Album News, Album Quotes, Albums Katherine Fortunato 3/12/24

NPR: 50 Albums Coming Out This Spring

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A guiding hand in the darkness: Timo Andres discusses his ‘The Blind Banister’ and his performance this weekend with Oregon Symphony
Album News, Album Quotes, Albums Katherine Fortunato 2/7/24 Album News, Album Quotes, Albums Katherine Fortunato 2/7/24

A guiding hand in the darkness: Timo Andres discusses his ‘The Blind Banister’ and his performance this weekend with Oregon Symphony

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Timo Andres New Album Releasing March 22 on Nonesuch Records
Album News, Albums, Press Release Katherine Fortunato 1/31/24 Album News, Albums, Press Release Katherine Fortunato 1/31/24

Timo Andres New Album Releasing March 22 on Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch releases composer Timo Andres’ new studio album, The Blind Banister, on March 22, 2024 featuring pianist Timo Andres, cellist Inbal Segev, and Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr.

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Albums 5/7/22 Albums 5/7/22

OperaWire: Bangsokol New Release

Bangsokol is the first major symphonic work that addresses the traumas of the Cambodian genocide of the late 1970s.

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Albums, Interviews 2/17/22 Albums, Interviews 2/17/22

Cultural Attaché: Interview with Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann

The new opera “In A Grove” may seem familiar, but in the hands of Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann the story that inspired "Rashomon" will definitely be different.

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Albums 11/9/21 Albums 11/9/21

Video Premiere: de_dust2 from The Computer Room by Phong Tran

For anyone old enough to remember the birth of the internet, the room in the house where that endearing, bulky desktop computer lived had a certain allure.

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Albums 3/7/21 Albums 3/7/21

Video Premiere: (Un)Wandering Souls

A timbrally-rich fusion of struck metal, wood, porcelain, and glass defines Vivian Fung’s(Un)Wandering Souls.

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Albums, Interviews 10/6/20 Albums, Interviews 10/6/20

WRTI: Vivian Fung Interview

Schooled in the classics, Vivian Fung writes music that speaks to the experiences of 21st-century audiences. "I feel like this is my role, she says, whether composing for orchestra, or other ensembles. "It has to be of our time. "

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Albums, Interviews 7/7/19 Albums, Interviews 7/7/19

Interview: William Brittelle on Forbidden Colors

Composer William Brittelle has shared the full score for and story behind "Forbidden Colors," the fifth track from his new album, Spiritual America, out now on Nonesuch/New Amsterdam Records.

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Albums, Reviews 4/22/19 Albums, Reviews 4/22/19

National Sawdust Log: Playlist (Waves of light)

“William Brittelle – Spiritual America – Wye Oak, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Metropolis Ensemble/Andrew Cyr (New Amsterdam/Nonesuch; due May 3, 2019)”

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Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews 3/13/19 Album Quotes, Albums, Reviews 3/13/19

WNYC: Captivating Chamber-Electro-Pop by Emily Wells with Metropolis Ensemble

For this world is too ___ for you, Emily Wells works in the space between art-pop and neoclassical chamber music using electronic and acoustic instruments and hip-hop production in elegant layers to support her singular and dramatic vocals.

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New York Times: Lending Mozart a Left Hand
Album News, Albums Katherine Fortunato 6/7/14 Album News, Albums Katherine Fortunato 6/7/14

New York Times: Lending Mozart a Left Hand

The composer and pianist Timo Andres’s take on the “Coronation” (otherwise known as the Piano Concerto No. 26 in D) felt necessary — not a lark but a surprisingly moving dazzler.

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Star Tribune: Composer Timo Andres Goes for the Beauty
Album News, Albums Katherine Fortunato 3/7/14 Album News, Albums Katherine Fortunato 3/7/14

Star Tribune: Composer Timo Andres Goes for the Beauty

His second record, last year’s “Home Stretch,” boldly fills in the absent left hand of Mozart’s “Coronation” Concerto and also offers up a 14-minute “Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno.”

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