Classical Music
Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s list includes such big names as Bob Dylan, ZZ Top, The Who, The Beach Boys, and George Rochberg.
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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The young baritone Will Liverman’s performances are full of spirit and a wide range of moods.
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For Joan Tower fans, this disc is a must; for the Tower-curious, it offers an excellent introduction to the composer’s wider work, all of it compellingly played.
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Interpretively, this installment in the BSO’s cycle of Dmitri Shostakovich’s fifteen symphonies is occasionally (and a bit surprisingly) spotty.
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Texturally, François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles’ serve up diaphanous performances.
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One of the year’s stand-out releases: full of wonderful music, all of it well worth getting to know, and played to the hilt.
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Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s especially eclectic list includes The Allman Brothers Band, Roy Brown, Black Sabbath, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
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I don’t recall encountering a recent Baroque recording that is sung with such a fine balance of smoothness and character.
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This new recording would be a great, and inexpensive, way to enter the sound world of Rossini’s mature operas.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues