Contemporary concert works and creative music in New York City, April 7–14.

Go to this concert if you want to know what happens when minimalism becomes a group experiment.

Overall, this is an extraordinary album, both in execution and in effect. The combination of ensemble interplay, shifting timbres, and hypnotic loops makes it a work that reveals more with each listen. It’s compelling enough that I’ll be picking up a copy on vinyl, to experience its nuances in full richness.

I found this recording utterly enthralling. All 106 sections of ten Holt’s masterwork.

This reengagement with Canto Ostinato is remarkable from start to finish, at times dynamically breathtaking and at other moments soothing in its assured flow, an altogether deft blossoming anyone enthusiastic over contemporary composition needs to hear. Metropolis Ensemble, Sandbox Percussion, and Erik Hall have realized a work of great beauty beyond any reasonable expectation.