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Book Review: ‘Faithbreaker’ by Hannah Kaner - Blogcritics

5 days ago | blogcritics.org | Richard Marcus

Faithbreaker is the third and concluding book in Hannah Kaner’s God Killer trilogy. Over the course of the first two books (Godkiller and Sunbringer) we were introduced to a world where humans have a personal and complex relationship to the multitude of gods and goddesses who inhabit their world. For the gods not only exist metaphysically, but walk the world in physical form as well. We were also introduced to a series of remarkable characters.
My (Tentative) 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival Schedule - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Gordon Miller

The 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival officially kicks off on the afternoon of Thursday April 24 as attendees pack into Club TCM within the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to meet TCM staffers. The full programming schedule is listed on their website as is information about buying passes or individual tickets. My current schedule at the time of publication is below, although changes are not only possible but very likely.
Exclusive Interview: Pianist Adam Żukiewicz on Saint-Saëns, Chopin, and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

On May 18, 2025, the Boulder Chamber Orchestra conducted by Bahman Saless will perform at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York for the first time. The program will include the Piano Concerto No. 5 by Camille Saint-Saëns, with featured soloist Adam Żukiewicz – or Dr. Żukiewicz, to his students at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, where he is Associate Professor of Piano.
Theater Review (NYC): ‘Café Resistance’ - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

The premise of Café Resistance seemed promising and timely. This play with music concerns a Paris nightclub-bordello commandeered in 1939 for the use of occupying Nazi officers, and of the lives and responses (resistant or collaborative) of its ladies of the evening. Civilized people everywhere are duty bound never to forget this era and milieu, and artistic evocations can help keep these urgent historical memories alive.
Music Review: New Thread Quartet – ‘Saxifraga,’ New Music for Saxophones - Blogcritics

1 week ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

Over 14 seasons, NYC-based New Thread Quartet has commissioned and premiered more than 150 new works. But their music has lived mostly in the ephemeral universe of concerts and broadcasts; Saxifraga is only the second album under their name, and the first since 2019’s Plastic Facts. New Thread is by no means the only saxophone quartet around; the format has a history both in new music and in jazz.
Music Review: Haochen Zhang – ‘Beethoven and Liszt’ - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

A concert pianist is almost obligated to engage with certain canonical composers, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt among them. Haochen Zhang has performed and recorded Liszt’s Transcendental Études and all five Beethoven piano concertos. Now the pianist has gone a step further, delivering on a new album two pieces that actually deserve the overused term “iconic”: Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata (officially the Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier) and Liszt’s Sonata in B minor.
Music Review: loadbang – ‘A Garden Adorned’ - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

Behold loadbang. Ever at the forefront. The chamber quartet’s unique instrumentation – trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice – has elicited from prominent composers fruitful explorations of the many ways to smash Western music’s traditional harmonies and timbres. But loadbang also performs music that takes those traditions into the present, in innovative ways.
Music Reviews: Nighthawk, Smoking Popes, the Seldom Scene, Maria Manousaki, Grey DeLisle, and Johnny Rawls - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jeff Burger

Nighthawk, Street Dog. Parker Hawkins (aka Nighthawk) is the bassist for Piper & the Hard Times, a Nashville-based blues-rock outfit whose debut CD topped Billboard’s blues album chart last year. He took a break from that gig to create Street Dog, and no wonder: Its genre-bending music, which draws on everything from pop and jazz to soul and R&B, is too wide-ranging to be a good fit for Piper’s group.
Exclusive Interview: Pianist Haochen Zhang on His New Album of Beethoven and Liszt - Blogcritics

2 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

Since taking the gold medal at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Haochen Zhang has become an admired and sought-after soloist and chamber musician. His recordings include concertos by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky, Liszt’s Transcendental Études, and all five Beethoven piano concertos. His latest album, Haochen Zhang plays Beethoven & Liszt, out now on the BIS label, focuses on those last two composers, both of whom have played major roles in Zhang’s life and career.
Music Review: ‘Northern Light: Echoes from 17th-Century Scandinavia’ from Ensemble Correspondances and Lucile Richardot - Blogcritics

3 weeks ago | blogcritics.org | Jon Sobel

This exquisite new album unveils seldom-heard music associated with the court of Charles XI of Sweden, who reigned from 1675 to 1697. The superb mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot collaborates with four other equally skilled singers and the musicians of Ensemble Correspondances, directed by organist Sébastian Daucé, on Northern Light, evocatively subtitled “Echoes from 17th-Century Scandinavia.”Why “Echoes”? Probably because this isn’t actually music by Scandinavian composers.