Classical Music
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.
The Altenberg-Lieder feature Alban Berg at his most direct and concise, as well as his most sumptuous.
The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.
Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year’s great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.
Two recommended discs: James Brawn’s complete Beethoven piano sonata series continues while Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry execute Philip Glass’s chorale-like writing with remarkable fervency and warmth.
Kevin Leong is unquestionably an inspired choice to lead this chorus.
Rarely in my experience has Ives’s visionary score sounded so fired with purpose.
Rethinking the Repertoire #25: Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Foreign Bodies”
For a composer who hails from Finland but found his spiritual home in Southern California, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s is a singular musical voice.
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