“In A Grove” on TIDAL’s The Avant Garden
Our new album, In A Grove, is featured at the top of the TIDAL Avant Garden playlist , and also featured prominently on the Classical page in the TIDAL app.
WRUU: Interview with Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann
“In A Grove” composer Christopher Cerrone and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann recently spoke with Dave Lake at WRUU in Savannah.
Musical America: “In A Grove” Review
Christopher Cerrone’s haunting opera In a Grove is a good example of how to create something original and modern out of a timeless classic. Cerrone’s atmospheric score is deep and magical.
VAN Magazine: Trust the Truths on “In a Grove”
Chris Cerrone talks about the adaptation process, his favorite Billie Eilish song, the influence of his wife, and how he built an entire opera out of two chords.
OperaWire: Bangsokol New Release
Bangsokol is the first major symphonic work that addresses the traumas of the Cambodian genocide of the late 1970s.
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.
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.
Video Premiere: (Un)Wandering Souls
A timbrally-rich fusion of struck metal, wood, porcelain, and glass defines Vivian Fung’s(Un)Wandering Souls.
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. "
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.
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)”
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.
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.
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.”
56th Grammy Awards: Home Stretch
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, 2014 proved to be a stellar night for the artists and collaborators of Metropolis Ensemble in multiple winning categories!
NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs Of 2013: Homestretch
Home Stretch is a gentle gondola ride through five lovely Eno songs ... a clever, lovingly orchestrated homage in the time-honored spirit of Franz Liszt.
Pasatiempo: TIMO ANDRES "Home Stretch"
The different music on composer-pianist Timo Andres’ Home Stretch — a rhythmically modern piece for piano and chamber orchestra, a reimagination of Mozart’s Coronation concerto, and a “paraphrase” of themes written by an experimental, ambient musician — is an adventure in time, in terms of tempo and stylistic history.
Seattle Pi Music Review: Timo Andres - 'Home Stretch'
In the reinvention of the Coronation Concerto on Home Stretch, Andres lets his imagination fill in the gaps, and creates a lovely amalgam of Mozartian classicism and modern pianistic sensibility.
Timo Andres: Weaving Together Eno And Mozart
On his new album, Home Stretch, Andres plays off of works by Brian Eno and Mozart, matching his reinventions of those pieces with a composition of his own. The result is a buoyant and fascinating record.
Andres: Home Stretch; Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno; Mozart/Andres: Coronation Concerto Recomposition – review
The centrepiece of this latest collection on Home Stretch is a perfect example of Andres's playful intelligence and individuality.