Steph Power
Recent articles by Steph Power
Stockhausen: avant-garde visionary
Steph Power celebrates the German composer Stockhausen whose farsighted innovations forever changed our approaches to composing and listening
JP Johnson: De Organizer; The Dreamy Kid
Michael J Evans: A Fine Agitation
Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava/Stanislav Vavřínek (Navona)
Mystique (Krzysztof Meisinger)
Krzysztof Meisinger (guitar) (Chandos)
Stillpoint (Awadagin Pratt)
Awadagin Pratt (piano); A Far Cry; Roomful of Teeth (New Amsterdam)
A guide to Ligeti’s Violin Concerto and its best recordings
Steph Power is entranced by all manner of dazzling soundworlds as she explores the best recordings of Ligeti’s Violin Concerto, a 20th-century virtuoso showstopper
Ives: Sets for Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra New England/James Sinclair (Naxos)
Christopher Cerrone: In a Grove
Lindsay Kesselman, Chuanyuan Liu, Andrew Turner, John Taylor Ward; Metropolis Ensemble (In a Circle)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Archora; Aiōn
Iceland Symphony Orchestra/Eva Ollikainen (Sono Luminus)
Reiko Füting: Mechthild
Olivia Stahn, Bernadette Beckermann, Jonas Finger, Hanna Herfurtner; AuditivVokal Dresden; Ensemble Adapter/Olaf Katzer (New Focus Recordings)
Roberto Sierra: Symphony No. 6 etc (RLPO/Hindoyan)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Domingo Hindoyan (Onyx)
El último aliento (Zsófia Boros)
Zsófia Boros (guitar) (ECM)
Missy Mazzoli: Dark With Excessive Bright etc
Peter Herresthal (violin); Arctic Philharmonic/Tim Weiss; Bergen Philharmonic/James Gaffigan (BIS)
Visages Baroques (Raphaël Feuillâtre)
Raphaël Feuillâtre (guitar) (DG)
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Winter's Edge; Shroud
Piatti Quartet (Delphian)
Nordheim: The Tempest (suite)
Beate Mordal (soprano), Jeremy Carpenter (baritone); Bergen Philharmonic/Edward Gardner (Lawo Classics)
WL Dawson • G Walker: Orchestral Works
Nicole Cabell (soprano); Seattle Symphony/Asher Fisch; Roderick Cox (Seattle Symphony)
Lotta Wennäkoski: Flounce; Sigla; Sedecim
Sivan Magen (harp); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Nicholas Collon (Ondine)
Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour: The Doll behind the Curtain
Jonathan von Schwanenflügel, Per Bach Nissen et al; Athelas Sinfonietta/Eirik Haukaas Ødegaard (BIS)
Change (Elsa de Lacerda, Pierre Solot)
Elsa de Lacerda (violin), Pierre Solot (piano) (Cypres)
Valentin Silvestrov: The Messenger; Post Scriptum etc
Daniel Rowland (violin), Maja Bogdanović (cello), Borys Fedorov (piano) (Challenge Classics)
Lasse Thoresen: The Sound of the Arctic
Arctic Philharmonic/Christian Kluxen (2L)
Matthew Kaner: Chamber Music
Goldfield Ensemble (Delphian)
Scott Ordway: The Outer Edge of Youth
Amy Broadbent (soprano), Emily Marvosh (contralto); The Thirteen/Matthew Robertson (Acis)