Classical Music
If you like good, smart singing, tenor Jonas Kaufmann’s Nessun Dorma:The Puccini Album disc is for you.
By any measure, this is an impressive orchestra, as technically accomplished as any number of professional ensembles, domestic and international.
“This is JETHRO TULL!, expressed proudly in bold terms. And then ‘the rock opera,’ said in an embarrassed whisper.”
Soprano Elizabeth Watts’ voice is as clear as crystal in every musical context and texture.
James MacMillan is one of the few contemporary composers who has embraced elements of the avant-garde and still found a wide audience.
Michael Lewin’s new album must surely rank among the most poetic and sensitive Debussy recordings of recent memory.
The truth is that the music of this most politically aware and morally astute of composers needs – and deserves – much wider currency.
Night Ferry proves to be an ambitious, absorbing score, filled with music of great color, vitality, and expression.
Rethinking the Repertoire #5: Leonard Bernstein’s “Songfest”
Bernstein’s Songfest is Exhibit A in the argument that American orchestras and conductors need to champion the music of these shores.
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