A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Yuja Wang, Los Angeles Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel (Deutsche Grammophon; 2023)
Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor – Cleveland Orchestra/Franz Welser-Möst (Cleveland Orchestra/Apple Music; 2024)
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 1 in C minor – Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester/Gunter Wand (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi/RCA Red Seal; 1982)
Goose – Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, April 8, 2024 (self-released; 2024)
Kory Reeder – Texas: Vol. VIII – Grids (Part 3) (self-released; 2024)
Kory Reeder – If the Thought Evaporates (Full Spectrum; 2024)
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 2 in C minor – Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Georg Solti (Decca; 1993)
Goose – Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, April 9, 2024 (YouTube livestream; 2024)
Mono – Heaven, Vol. 2 (self-released; 2023)
Sarah Hennies – Motor Tapes (New World; due May 2024)
zeitgebers – ensemble 0; Clock Dies – Talea Ensemble/James Baker; Motor Tapes – Ensemble Dedalus
Goose – Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, April 10, 2024 (YouTube livestream; 2024)
andPlay & Victoria Cheah – A Butterfly on Your Shoulder Into Years and Years to Come (Dinzu Artefacts; 2022)
Heavy Air – Works by Christine Burke, Victoria Cheah, & Daniel Meyer-O'Keeffe (self-released; 2019)
Daniel Meyer-O'Keeffe – I Love My Friends and They Are at My House; Victoria Cheah – I hear her emails in my dreams about childhood; Christine Burke – Company
Wavefield Ensemble – Concrete & Void (New Focus; 2021)
Jen Baker – Lightsicle Sirens; Jessie Cox – Space Travel from Someplace Else; Victoria Cheah – A wasp, some wax, an outline of the valley over us a fall; Greg Chudzik – Silo; Nicholas DeMaison – Untitled 1, for Wavefield
Victoria Cheah – Hard columns you within – the [Switch~ Ensemble] (YouTube; 2022)
Michael Ranta – Transits, Vol. 1 – Sarah Hennies (Important; due July 2024)
Mharuva – Sarah Hennies; Seven Pieces for Three Percussionists – Bard Conservatory Percussion Ensemble; Continuum II – Madison Greenstone, Katie Porter, Sarah Hennies
James Romig – Ring (Parallax Music Press; due Apr. 26, 2024)
Various artists – Bruckner from the Archives, Vol. 2 (Ariadne/Somm; due May 17, 2024)
Mass No. 2 in E minor – Choir of St Hedwig’s Cathedral Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic/Karl Forster; Symphony in D minor (“Die Nullte") – Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam/Eduard van Beinum; Symphony No. 2 in C minor – Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra/Georg Ludwig Jochum
Kory Reeder – Texas: Vol. IX – Grids (Part 4) (self-released; 2024)
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 3 in D minor – Royal Scottish National Orchestra/George Tintner (Naxos; 1996)
John Butcher + 13 – Fluid Fixations (weight of wax; 2024)
Dave Douglas – Gifts (Greenleaf Music; 2024)
Art Farmer – Something to Live For (Contemporary; 1987)
Duke Ellington – …And His Mother Called Him Bill (RCA Victor; 1968)
Wadada Leo Smith/Amina Claudine Myers – Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook; due May 10, 2024)
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 4 in E-flat ("Romantic") – Wiener Philharmoniker/Karl Böhm (Decca; 1973)
Tool – Undertow (Zoo Entertainment; 1993)
Yarn/Wire – Yarn/Wire Currents 8 (self-released; 2024)
Sarah Davachi – Feedback Studies for Percussion; Kelley Sheehan – acoustic sourings; Victoria Cheah – Ocean Into Wire
Yarn/Wire – Yarn/Wire Currents 9 (self-released; due May 24, 2024)
Jessie Cox – Mirror Blown Into Pieces, The Immortal III; Heather Stebbins – An Index of Fictions; Jordan Dykstra – Pitiless As the Sun
Bob Dylan – Brooklyn Bowl, Nashville, TN, March 26, 2024 (ROIO; 2024)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – "Broken Circle (Over and Over)" from Fu##in' Up (Reprise; due Apr. 20, 2024)
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