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Critic Greg Sandow on Maya Beiser

The respected music critic Greg Sandow, who blogs about ‘the future of classical music,’ just wrote an elegant and thought-provoking piece discussing Maya Beiser’s newest album Provenance and her unique approach to being a classical music artist in today’s music world. 

Maya Beiser - Provenance album art“More music I loved this summer: Maya Beiser’s new album, Provenance, on the Innova label. If you know her playing, of course you want to hear the album. She’s a soulful cellist, to say the least, and powerfully so. She wails. But there’s also always a marvelous sense of both exploration and control. 

[…] I’ve listened several times, and I’m always drawn in, by the melodies probing over drones, by the rhythms, by (again) the soul.” [Greg Sandow]

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