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Every Ending Is Also a New Beginning
I was left with a somewhat flat feeling. The piece also ended so quietly that several people were unsure whether it had actually finished and whether we could applaud.
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Fear and Heavy Curtains in Aarhus
»And that is how it sounded. Cold. Like the saddest Instagram filter imaginable – with sound.«
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Hooray! The Big Questions Are Still Alive in Opera
»It was as much the enchantment of Rumi’s poetry as the myth of the poet himself that drove the work.«
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A World of Contrasts – and a Touch of Smurf Vocals
Sensitive jazz guys? Nope – suddenly Marsalis hurled himself into the seated audience with a somersault – and a scream.
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What a Dial Tone Tells Us About Life
What a strange release, nostalgically so in its way. And how creative.
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Ballet’s New Power Duo
It is saturated, direct, and seemingly made for a grippingly intense choreography. A powerful partnership on the grand stage.
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Music for Lovers, but Not for Me
With »Music for Lovers«, the Swiss drummer and electronic musician Samuel Rohrer gets many things right. But the songwriting, unfortunately, falls short.
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Cortini – the Electronic John Williams
There was no affected distance or feigned coolness – only pure, unadulterated musical beauty.
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Behind the Words
Emotionally potent, and filled with pleasing, warm synth tones that recall 1970s German Kosmische Musik.
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Finnish Space Travel
»Hoshi« is an album packed with microscopic moments that together form a frayed, exploding, radiant, idiosyncratic whole—a stellar moment of just under 38 minutes