“Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?” by John Adams is a contemporary piano concerto that has quickly become one of my favourite compositions of all time. The name comes straight from a 1950s interview with Dorothy Day, the Catholic social activist, who quoted Martin Luther’s famously cynical remark. Adams himself says the phrase was taken […]
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“Stunned” is the best word to describe how I looked when I first listened to 20,000 Years & Still Going Strong by Computer Nerd. From the first minutes, it is clear that this is not just a rock album, it is a full-on rock opera. Amazing riffs, impressive harmonic progressions, complex rhythmic and textural structures,
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What Kind of World Is This? By NTHNL, is built on a fundamental collision: electronic music against flute. Industrial beats, dense pads, and synthetic textures are constantly set in opposition to the soft, velvet-like timbre of the flute, and this tension becomes the album’s main dramatic force. It is not a decorative contrast, it is
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Philip Glass (31 January 1937) stands as one of the most revolutionary composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Defying easy categorization, he crafted an unmistakable musical language that reshaped what modern classical music could be. Glass’s work dissolves boundaries between genres, opera, symphony, film, popular music, and world traditions, to create deeply
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The Estonian Composer Arvo Pärt has once again topped global charts as the world’s most performed living composer, reaffirming his unparalleled impact on contemporary classical music. According to statistics from the classical music database Bachtrack, Pärt’s works dominated performance rosters internationally in 2025, a remarkable testament to the global resonance of his deeply spiritual and
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Sir John Kenneth Tavener (28 January 28 1944 – 12 November 2013) stands among the most distinctive voices of late-20th- and early-21st-century English composition. Renowned for a deep fusion of sacred sensibility and musical innovation, Tavener’s work occupies a unique place in contemporary classical music, one where devotion meets sonic transcendence and where minimalism meets
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In a dramatic and principled move that has reverberated across the classical music world, legendary American composer Philip Glass has announced that he is withdrawing the world premiere of his Symphony No. 15 “Lincoln” from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts later this year. Glass, now 88, explained in a statement posted
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American composer Luke Garrigus has released his new EP Inkjaw, a striking contemporary music statement that pushes restlessness, precision, and sonic tension to the foreground. Released on 6 January 2026 via Sound Ecologies, the five-track EP unfolds across 18 minutes of uncompromising musical architecture. Inkjaw is not background listening. The music is demanding, refusing comfort
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Alireza Mashayekhi (Born on 25th of January 1940) stands as a towering figure in the history of Iranian contemporary music, a composer, conductor, and academic whose bold fusion of Persian tradition with modern Western techniques reshaped the sonic landscape of his homeland. Revered for introducing experimental and electronic music to Iranian ears, his career spans
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On 9 January 2026, the bold ongoing Going Home Project series added a compelling new chapter with the release of Ravel: Complete Chamber Music II, a digital album that reframes some of Maurice Ravel’s most evocative chamber works through a deeply expressive, modern lens. Distributed internationally and licensed to the acclaimed French label Naïve by
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