Jonathan Blumhofer
Composer Charles Villiers Stanford’s best traits were formidable indeed.
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Henry Cowell’s was an important, if now often forgotten, voice in 20th-century music.
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Composer Florence Price’s lack of acceptance into the American canon is shameful.
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The Altenberg-Lieder feature Alban Berg at his most direct and concise, as well as his most sumptuous.
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The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.
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Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year’s great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.
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Two recommended discs: James Brawn’s complete Beethoven piano sonata series continues while Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry execute Philip Glass’s chorale-like writing with remarkable fervency and warmth.
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Rarely in my experience has Ives’s visionary score sounded so fired with purpose.
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George Szell’s Reign is ultimately an accessible, often sociable, but sometimes perplexing fan’s history of the Orchestra and its storied music director.
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Rethinking the Repertoire #25: Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Foreign Bodies”
For a composer who hails from Finland but found his spiritual home in Southern California, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s is a singular musical voice.
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