Classical Music
Garth Edwin Sunderland’s new chamber adaptation of this opera’s score, is, to date, the Bernstein Centennial Year’s best and most important recording.
You know a Cowboy Junkies tune the second that you hear it, but the songs don’t come off as formulaic or produced for mass consumption.
Anna Shelest’s new recording of piano-and-orchestra pieces by Anton Rubinstein is one of those albums that makes you want to rethink Rubinstein’s relative neglect in the broader canon – almost.
One of the most astonishing sets of my week in Montreal featured two Frenchmen, accordionist Vincent Peirani and soprano saxophonist Émile Parisien.
Pianist Constantine Finehouse and violinist Daniel Kurganov are well-matched musicians, and have recorded a superb album.
For a composer who hails from Finland but found his spiritual home in Southern California, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s is a singular musical voice.
Composer Charles Villiers Stanford’s best traits were formidable indeed.
Henry Cowell’s was an important, if now often forgotten, voice in 20th-century music.
Composer Florence Price’s lack of acceptance into the American canon is shameful.
Rethinking the Repertoire: Postlude
The moral should be to err in favor of the audacious. That’s what this world – and this art form – require.
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