Jonathan Blumhofer
A mightily played, deeply felt, and finely recorded album from Trio Con Brio.
Florence Price’s voice and the richness and complexity of an almost-entirely neglected body of symphonic music by Black American composers can be heard in this excellent recording.
This is an album of real spirit and vigor, a mix of the thoughtful and the exciting, all bracingly recorded.
This weekend’s concerts all add up to a quintessential Symphony Pro Musica event: a mix of the familiar and unexpected, with various old friends coming by to visit along the way.
Beethoven never left Europe. But he could have. And the possibility that he might have visited Boston is the basis of Paul Griffiths’ touching, witty, and thought-provoking new novel.
May the Boston Symphony – which just concluded its annual weekend celebrating the music of Black composers by shunting them off on their own, away from Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Beethoven, and Friends – take note: this is how it should be done.
A terrific album, commandingly played, that adds to our knowledge and appreciation of this too-long neglected repertoire.
This was an epic performance of an epic piece, steeped in Brucknerian character.
Andris Nelsons’s conception of Strauss’s Tod und Verklärung was impressive, marked by strong contrasts of character, flexibility of phrasing, and a commendable grasp of musical space.
I’m not entirely sure if Enigma just adds up to the sum of its parts or if it, in fact, exceeds them. Either way, it is music of stirring, striking originality.
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