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Quatuor Bozzini and Linda Catlin Smith Talk the Art of Interpretation

The collaborators catch up in celebration of the quartet’s 25th anniversary.

April 11, 2025

isomonstrosity Break Down the Creation of Their Pandemic Symphony Record

The trio talk the genesis of the project and more with Brassland’s co-founder.

November 18, 2022

Meg Remy (U.S. Girls) and Billy Wild Talk Glenn Gould, Goodie Mob and Bach

The collaborators dive deep on sampling the Canadian classical pianist.

February 8, 2022

Three Great Things: Max Richter

The eminent contemporary composer, currently the subject of the Mubi documentary Max Richter's Sleep, shares three things that he loves.

April 5, 2021

A Record of A Record Of…

Adam Sliwinski (Sō Percussion) on creating a “new entity” with Buke and Gase on their new collaborative album.

February 10, 2021

Ethan Iverson (the Bad Plus) Talks Harrison Birtwistle’s Chamber Music

Sir Harrison Birtwistle has always dared to ask the hard questions, searching for the most extreme expression that angular modernism can find.

June 18, 2014

Roger C. Miller (Mission of Burma) Talks the Bad Plus’ The Rite of Spring

I was fascinated with Igor Stravinsky's 1913 The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps) long before I realized how radical it was in...

April 7, 2014

Ethan Iverson (the Bad Plus) Talks Marc-André Hamelin’s Busoni: Late Piano Music

Some composers are more about other music than others. Perhaps no one was about other music more than Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), the virtuosic...

February 5, 2014

Ethan Iverson (the Bad Plus, the Billy Hart Quartet) Talks Andreas Staier’s …pour passer la mélancolie

While today “melancholy” simply means being sad, it used to mean a variety of introspective attitudes and, as they were called back then, humors.

October 10, 2013