Classical Music
Happily, the admirable Horizon Ensemble is championing Germaine Tailleferre’s mesmerizing piano concerto.
Baritone Will Liverman is emerging as a musician with a capital “M,” one whose thoroughgoing approach to the craft is singularly illuminating, inviting, and affecting.
That composer Anna Clyne is a gifted miniaturist is evident in “Abstractions”, a set of five movements offering musical commentary on the works of five contemporary visual artists.
The Boston Landmarks Orchestra offered a rousing valediction for a summer season drawing to a close.
This collection of ten items by the Soviet-era great manages to be more than a parade of mere curiosities.
By Aaron Keebaugh The point was made: this was not merely a revolt, but a revolution in sound. “It is a big revolt,” King Louis XVI exclaimed after the fall of the Bastille in 1789. “No Sir,” answered François de la Rochefoucauld, “a big revolution.” The events that followed shook France to its very foundations…
An impressive series of performances that are not for the faint-of-heart.
World-renowned soprano Aleksandra Kurzak’s homage to the great French soprano Cornélie Falcon is largely one to cherish.
This fine album demonstrates that the music of neglected, mixed-race English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is well worth resurrecting.
Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam, Christoph von Dohnányi (1929-2025)
Christoph von Dohnányi was a rare breed: a truly great artist whose mind never rested and whose standards never settled.
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