Belgrade, Serbia-based composer-pianists Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović are the musical minds behind LP Duo. Eager to break new ground, Sonja and Andrija have forged their own original combination of electronics and acoustic pianism – melding the synthesized and the organic – with a little help from their friends over at the quantum physics lab. […]
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s music was in high demand in Hollywood. The late Icelandic composer’s unique musical voice – with its distinctive blend of minimalism and ambient electronica – was ideally suited to the medium of film. Deutsche Grammophon has once again paid a posthumous tribute to Jóhannsson’s work with the first-ever release of his music for […]
Isobel Waller-Bridge can’t wait to lock herself away. The celebrated composer – whose recent credits include Emma, Black Mirror and Vanity Fair – has recently finished building a brand new recording studio. The first project to be produced there will be Isobel’s debut album for Mercury KX, slated for release in 2021. The crown in […]
Be it at a wedding, a funeral, or during the emotional climax of a K-drama, Yiruma’s music has tugged at the heartstrings of millions worldwide.
Swedish pianist and composer Jacob Mühlrad will release music from his Tröstrapporter project as a series of EPs throughout 2020. Swedish for “comforting reports” the Tröstrapporter project consists of music composed as a soundtrack to a play of the same name. Stream Jacob Mühlrad’s new EP Tröstrapporter Tröstrapporter (the play) was written by popular Swedish […]
Ludovico Einaudi has released a 12-track digital collection, 12 Songs From Home, recorded at his home in Italy on his own upright piano while on lockdown. The collection’s artwork was drawn by Einaudi, and the tracks were recorded using the composer’s iPhone. Ludivico Einaudi – 12 Songs From Home is out now to stream Discover […]
Chad Lawson’s curriculum vitae is so impressive that it would be futile to convey all the ins and outs here. From film scoring, jazz performance and now neo-classical, he’s covered it all. He could be forgiven for reflecting about the diversity of his compositions with a sense of ambiguity, but it became clear over the […]
Sophie Hutchings is guided by her instincts. As a young woman, immersed in a highly musical Sydney household, she bided her time, absorbing the music and art of her father and brothers, but herself refusing to play her own ruminative piano compositions beyond the safety of her bedroom. When her own innate talent finally got […]
Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? is a new work for piano and orchestra by American composer John Adams. The piece continues Adam’s provocative exploration of the piano – following his seminal works Grand Pianola Music (1983) and Hallelujah Junction (2001). Composed by Adams for pianist Yuja Wang and commissioned by the Los […]
