Classical Music
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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This is an all-English album whose strongest moments are mighty and who’s most intriguing piece is a revelation.
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Major works for saxophone in world-premiere recordings featuring virtuoso Paul Cohen and his brilliant colleagues.
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A packed, wide-ranging conversation with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter that touches on several subjects, from a lifelong love of jazz to her verdict on John Williams’ Violin Concerto no. 2.
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Some tracks work better than others, but Maya Beiser’s larger effort succeeds in presenting Glass’s music in a more nuanced – and musically complex – light.
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A thoughtfully conceived, technically excellent, beautifully recorded, and expressively rich album that celebrates 20th-century piano music by (mostly) American composers.
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One could hardly ask for more persuasive Bruch advocacy than what the Nash Ensemble offers here.
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Here is an outstanding recording from the Escher String Quartet of music by two stylistically divergent 20th-century American composers, Samuel Barber and Charles Ives.
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The performance shows generally high competence and comfort, no surprise given that the work is a longtime staple in Croatia: indeed, it is the single most-performed opera in the entire repertory of the Croatian National Theater.
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Chopin masterpieces, Rossini duets, and songs, spirituals, and arias — all performed in ways that make the music dazzle.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues