Trouble

Vijay Iyer: Trouble
Boston Modern Orchestra Project

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project has released an album of Vijay’s compositions, with Gil Rose, conductor.

Approaching its landmark 100th album, the Grammy Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) led by conductor Gil Rose releases Vijay Iyer: Trouble on its eponymous label, BMOP/sound. Marking his debut recording as an orchestral composer, polymath Vijay Iyer showcases his high-minded yet emotionally expressive approach to music-making with this collection of bustling textures, surprising forms, and pulsating rhythms. Vijay Iyer: Trouble comprises three of his holistic musical responses to living in times of struggle. Asunder (2017) employs an Ellingtonian palette to portray American life as “pulled apart, broken, anxious, untethered”; Trouble (2017) uses the violin concerto format to voice our unfinished quest for equal rights; and Crisis Modes (2019) speaks of an unease around rising threats to humanity via strings and percussion. Alongside Iyer’s meteoric career in the jazz universe, he has maintained a parallel life as a classical composer that has often gone unnoticed…until now.

Review in THE NEW YORK TIMES

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June 27, 2024 by David Weininger

Review in THE WIRE

“…this music is both uplifting and instructive; it enlightens through its irresistible buoyancy. Even when these gracefully realized compositions are at their most reflective or plaintive, the dancing figure of a resounding affirmation is taking shape.”

– Julian Cowley, The Wire Magazine, Aug, 2024

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The Whole Note – Dec-Jan issue (Trouble)

thewholenote.com/volume-30-issue-3-december-2024

“Once more for everyone in the back, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project led by Gil Rose, is fantastic.”
– The Whole Note

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