Reich Double Sextet/Radio Rewrite Ensemble Signal disc is finally out on Harmonia Mundi.
Press:”This sensational recording actually uses another six musicians playing live – a luxury, and one which surely contributes to the performance’s spontaneity and warmth” (theartsdesk.com)
Read An Earful here
Lisa Moore – The Stone People “Here is someone who will delve without fear into the furthest reaches of piano music (seek out her Frederick Rzewski interpretations) and come up smiling. Her relentless curiosity and absolute commitment have served her well in assembling this album, which contains John Luther Adams’ […]
Sonograma writes: “These three pieces of Adams – Tukiliit, Among Red Mountainsand Nunatcks- are perhaps the highlight of the recording, treated with delicious expressiveness and impeccable playing technique for the Australian, who reveals a suggestive Adams, majestic even in these miniatures. Throughout the album, the pianist uses a panoply of musical scenes in a well-balanced repertoire section: from the […]
April 3 2016 “On her most recent album, “The Stone People,” the pianist Lisa Moore sings and plays Martin Bresnick’s hypnotic “Ishi’s Song,” a setting of a chant by the last member of the Yahi, who died in 1916…His setting begins with the pianist’s simultaneously singing and […]
The Hannah Lash Composer Portrait concert April 7th @ Miller Theatre, The New York Times writes this: “The pianist Lisa Moore was the deft soloist in the premiere of “Six Etudes and a Dream,” whose seven vividly scored movements included mournful, slow melodies and virtuosic flurries in the highest register of the keyboard.”
If you’re going to make a grand piano thunder and clang, you have to be able to do it with the elegance and fervor that pianist Lisa Moore brings to the task. About half of her formidable new release is devoted to […]
The Music Trust review is out – composer Gordon Kerry writes “For me another abiding memory of the 1990s was hearing Lisa Moore give the premiere of Michael Smetanin’s Stroke in the admittedly over-resonant acoustics of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Moore has largely specialised in new music, of course, both as soloist and member […]
“Lisa Moore is more than just a seminal New York pianist who founded the iconic Bang on a Can All-Stars. Her dynamic performances incorporate elemental designs that help her channel a unique flow in the way she plays the instrument”
Have a quick read of this recent interview with Lisa and Classicalite.com here
on Feb 25 WQXR’s Matt Abramovitz hosted an amazing, hilarious night down at the Greene Space WQXR.
Watch the whole thing here
