Classical Music
I immediately heard how adept these players were — and how brilliantly they played together.
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Johann Simon Mayr’s delicious L’Accademia di musica gets a spiffy performance from the “Rossini in Wildbad” Festival.
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Like Thin Lizzy, Minx marries metallic thunder with melodic structures and lyrics worth listening to.
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This is an album of top-notch orchestral playing. Yet the real star is Karina Canellakis.
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The best items in this all-Mozart album are the concertos.
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Violinist Maria Ioudenitch seems to know how to get directly at the expressive core of this fare without devolving into showboating or histrionics.
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Some of France’s best early-music singers and a splendid period-instrument band make this Zoroastre a perfect introduction to the pleasures of Baroque music.
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Jonathan Berger’s remarkable chamber opera about the Mỹ Lai Massacre is a powerful artistic and anti-war statement.
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HER | alive.un.dead proves that some stories are best told by trusting the audience’s imagination.
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Swiss composer Richard Flury’s engaging comic opera is a celebration of the life spirit, and a criticism of celibacy as a practice that cramps and distorts an individual’s basic humanity.
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard