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ARTICLE
2024 Artist Picks

REVIEWS
Claire Booth & Andrew Matthew-Owens: Paris 1913: L'Offrande lyrique (Nimbus Alliance)
Kai-Young Chan: Constraints / Creativity: Cantonese Choral Works (Navona Records)
Gerald Cohen & Deborah Brevoort: Steal A Pencil For Me (Sono Luminus)
Covert Ensemble: Bedrich Smetana: Three Dances from The Bartered Bride (Teal Creek Music)
The Crossing: Meciendo (Navona Records)
FitkinWall: Uist (NXN Recordings)
Adolphus Hailstork: Chamber Works (Navona Records)
Gavin Higgins: The Faerie Bride | Horn Concerto (Lyrita)
Frank Horvat: More Rivers (Navona Records)
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra: Michael Abels & Augusta Read Thomas: Children's Stories (Cedille)
Tomono Kawamura: Reminiscence (Divine Art)
Lee Kesselman: Would that Loving Were Enough (Blue Griffin Records)
Daniel Knaggs: The Joyful Mysteries Choral Symphony and Other Works (Acis)
The Kris Collective: Cor Collaborandi, A Transnational Celebration of the Early Modern (Acis)
Dött ljus: Bottna (Slowcraft)
Lophae: Perfect Strangers (Gregory J E Sanders)
Lyric Fest: Any of Those Decembers (Navona Records)
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough and Lucy Fitz Gibbon: the labor of forgetting (False Azure Records)
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough and Andrew Zhou: sedgeflowers | MANTRA (False Azure Records)
Patricia McCarty & Bill Zito: Crossings (Ashmont Music)
James McVinnie: Dreamcatcher (Pentatone)
Paul Neebe: Undiscovered Trumpet Concertos (Albany Records)
Jonathan Östlund: Rêveries (Divine Art)
Seraphour: Anno Domini (Seraphour)
Wako: Evig liv, perfekt orden (Øra Fonogram)
David Yearsley: Handel's Organ Banquet (False Azure Records)

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textura's premiere issue appeared in August 2004 and its 135th in June 2016; during that time, eleven advertising-free editions were published each year featuring experimental, electronic, jazz, and classical music-related reviews, interviews, and articles; in August 2016, textura retired the monthly format in favour of regular updating that sees new content—reviews, articles, mp3s, and videos—added throughout the month. In 2008, the textura label was founded, and five full-length recordings of original material have been released to date (details here).

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