Earlier this year, Emi Ferguson and Jacob Rhodebeck gave the premiere performances of Michael Hersch's two-hour-long, twenty-nine-movement cycle scars plummet to the corners, for flute and piano. A complete video is now on Hersch's channel on YouTube. At Ojai in 2022, I heard Ferguson and Conor Hanick play two movements from the cycle, and was enthralled. I'm still absorbing and making sense of the complete work, but it's obviously a staggering achievement. Unfortunately, the stream is interrupted by ads, but perhaps some of you have paid the premium that removes that annoyance.
Published on August 14, 2025 19:20