Steph Power
Recent articles by Steph Power
Review: Bassoon Concertos (Martin Kuuskmann)
Martin Kuuskmann brings technical brilliance and sonorous, expressive warmth to three modern Estonian bassoon concertos
Donnacha Dennehy: Land of Winter (Review)
In her review, Steph Power is captivated by Donnacha Dennehy’s poetic portrait of Ireland’s unforgiving seasonal shifts
Edmund Finnis: Youth; Lullaby for Emmeline
Beach • John Corigliano: Violin Sonatas
Ligeti’s Violin Concerto: how it was written 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
Purnima: Works by Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, Alex Groves, Emily Hall, Rakhi Singh
Langgaard: Songs
Letter(s) to Erik Satie
Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra; Novelette etc
Stockhausen: avant-garde visionary
Steph Power celebrates the German composer Stockhausen whose farsighted innovations forever changed our approaches to composing and listening
George Lewis: Afterword
Exquisitely Absurd
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)
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)