Review: American Rage (Conrad Tao)
Rising American star asks can classical music be political?
February 25, 2020
Review: Roy Agnew: Piano Music (Stephanie McCallum)
A once-acclaimed composer gets his overdue recognition.
February 25, 2020
Review: Bach: The Six Partitas (Angela Hewitt)
A Bach keyboard masterpiece yields dazzling results.
February 19, 2020
Review: Muhly, Glass: Unexpected News (Omega Ensemble/Hamilton)
Glass and his apprentice conjure up some minimalist magic.
February 19, 2020
Review: From Belcanto To Jazz: 150 Years Of Opera Phantasies (Volker Reinhold, Ralph Zedler)
Reinhold’s fiddle drags the opera fantasia into the 20th century.
February 19, 2020
Review: The Mathilde Album (Quatuor Arod, Elsa Dreisig)
Quatuor Arod tackle the Second Viennese School.
February 19, 2020
Review: Bryce Dessner: Tenebre (Moses Sumney, Ensemble Resonanz)
New drones, same as the old drones in Dessner string works.
February 19, 2020
Review: Tchaikovsky • Babajanian: Piano Trios (Gluzman, Moser, Sudbin)
Stellar trio illuminate Tchaikovsky and more.
February 19, 2020
Review: Time & Eternity (Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Camerata Bern)
Pat Kop delivers concertos for strangled scream and orchestra.
February 13, 2020
Orchestral
Review: Heino Eller: Symphonic Poems (Estonian National SO/Elts)
A quartet of rediscovered gems from an Estonian master.
February 13, 2020
Review: Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Chailly)
Chailly runs the gamut from the arcane to the sublime.
February 13, 2020
Review: Elgar • Chadwick: Falstaff, Tam O’Shanter (BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Constantine)
It’s England versus Scotland in a rather unusual match.
February 13, 2020
Review: Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (Jan Lisiecki)
Yellow label wunderkind delivers masterly Beethoven.
February 13, 2020