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Giovanni Pessi / Susanna Wallumrod: If Grief Could Wait

Read "Giovanni Pessi / Susanna Wallumrod: If Grief Could Wait" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Giovanni Pessi, Susanna Wallumrod, Marco Ambrosini, Jane AchtmanIf Grief Could WaitECM2012 Manfred Eicher's Edition of Contemporary Music label (aka ECM) has three creative foci: “classical" music, jazz and folk music. The last of these is often overlooked in discussions of ECM, but folk music, particularly that of the colder European climes, makes up a potent part of the company's catalog. These three foci do not exist separately from one another. Instead, ...

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Giovanna Pessi / Susanna Wallumrod: If Grief Could Wait

Read "If Grief Could Wait" reviewed by John Kelman


There was a time when hard lines existed between genres, but they seem long gone when tenor John Potter and electronic composer Ambrose Field can create a very 21st century take on 15th century musical frameworks with Being Dufay (2009), while Norwegian keyboardist Jon Balke conjoins baroque string ensemble and Fourth World progenitor, trumpeter Jon Hassell into a century and culture-spanning Siwan (2009). It's no coincidence that both recordings are on ECM; with If Grief Could Wait, the German label ...

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