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Classical Music

Classical Album Review: John Adams Orchestral Works

My Father Knew Charles Ives and Harmonielehre make an excellent pairing on the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s new, all-Adams album led by music director Giancarlo Guerrero.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Giancarlo Guerrero, Harmonielehre, John Adams Orchestral Works, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Naxos

Opera Preview: Donizetti’s “The Pariah” — One of the Most Significant Opera Releases of the Past Few Years

The long-forgotten Il paria (1829), a work that Donizetti himself prized more highly than many of his other works, has now been reconstructed by a scholarly team and given a splendid recording.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Preview Tagged: " Opera Rara, Albina Shagimuratova, Donizetti, Gaetano Donizetti, Il paria, Sir Mark Elder

Classical Album Review: “Adrian Boult: A Musical Legacy” — Introduction to a Special Conductor

Sir Adrian Boult certainly had his ups and downs as a conductor, but these performances showcase him largely at his best.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Adrian Boult, Adrian Boult: A Musical Legacy, London-Symphony-Orchestra

Opera Album Review: Leonardo “no-dah” Vinci’s “Gismondo” — Quite Wonderful Stuff, Splendidly Performed.

Lovers of Baroque opera will want to scoop this one up quickly. I certainly have more respect and affection for Leonardo Vinci, now that I’ve come to know several of his operas.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: (oh!) Orkiestra Historyczna, Gismondo, Leonardo Vinci, Parnassus, Ralph P. Locke, re di Polonia

Opera CD Review: William Alwyn’s Powerful Take on Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” — A Neglected Masterpiece

The second recording of William Alwyn’s searing opera confirms the work’s vitality and importance. It is one of the best and most accessible operas to have been written in the past few decades.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Anna Patalong, Chandos, Miss Julie, Ralph P. Locke, Sakari Oramo, William Alwyn

Arts Feature: Best Classical Recordings of 2020

The pandemic may have largely shut down live musical performances for 2020, but the recording industry remained alive and very active these past twelve months.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music

Classical CD Reviews: Listening During COVID, Part 3 –From Boston with Love (Performances of Haydn, Dello Joio, and Virgil Thomson).

Two new recordings and one much-welcome re-release contain first-rate performances of Haydn’s 1798 “Lord Nelson” Mass, Dello Joio’s opera about Joan of Arc, and Virgil Thomson’s astonishing musical portraits of Alice B. Toklas, Picasso, and others.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: composer Norman Dello Joio, Gil-Rose, Handel and Haydn Society, Lord Nelson” Mass, Odyssey Opera, Ralph P. Locke, The Trial at Rouen, Virgil Thomson

Classical CD Reviews: More Beethoven — Michael Gielen Edition, vol. 9 and René Jacobs conducts the “Missa solemnis”

A captivating and thought-provoking version of Missa solemnis from René Jacobs and his forces; the Michael Gielen Edition is one of this Beethoven anniversary-year’s highlights.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Music, Review Tagged: Harmonia Mundi, Michael Gielen, Missa solemnis, René Jacobs, SWR

Classical CD Reviews: “Babel,” Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Mass for the Endangered,” and John Luther Adams’ “Become Trilogy”

Calidore String Quartet’s Babel is one of the year’s best albums; Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered offers an unsettling and beautifully direct rethinking of the traditional Roman liturgy; for John Luther Adams fans – and the Adams-curious – Become Trilogy is a must.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Bable, Become Trilogy, Calidore String Quartet, John Luther Adams, Ludovic Morlot, Mass for the Endangered, New Amsterdam, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Seattle Symphony, Signum

Classical CD Reviews: Russia’s Silver Age, “Amici e Rivali,” and Jonathan Leshnoff’s Symphony no. 3

Daniil Trifonov’s Silver Age pays bracing tribute to fin-de-siecle and post-Revolutionary Russian music; Jonathan Leshnoff’s Third Symphony is smartly-written and affecting. What happens when tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres team up for an album of duets and ensembles from various Rossini operas? Fireworks.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Amici e Rivali, Daniil Trifonov, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, I Virtuosi Italiani, Jonathan Leshnoff, Reference Records

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