Jonathan Blumhofer
The album is a welcome appendix to the conductor’s admirable symphonic cycle with this orchestra, as well as a timely reminder of Vaughan Williams’ compositional range.
Read MoreUltimately, then, we’ve got something special here: a fresh take on some canonic works by a conductor and soloist whose bread-and-butter is this very fare.
Read MoreMove over, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók: the pantheon of great Third Piano Concertos is growing.
Read MoreThis new recording of Charles Villiers Stanford’s”Requiem” by Martyn Brabbins, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), and the University of Birmingham Voices, is beautiful and often memorable.
Read MoreAn album that does admirable justice to one of the most prolific, significant, and increasingly long-lived composers of a remarkable generation.
Read MoreRandall Goosby’s sophomore album proves that the violinist is the real deal.
Read MoreThis is an album of top-notch orchestral playing. Yet the real star is Karina Canellakis.
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Commentary: Brandeis University Axes the Arts
Gutting a venerable department – particularly a world-renowned one that, by all accounts, delivers – in the name of belt-tightening is shortsighted and foolish.
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