Classical Music
Javier Perianes proved himself one of the elite pianists of our day, playing with such deep, inward focus.
Read MoreViolinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and conductor Teodor Currentzis are two of the most interesting figures in classical music today.
Read MoreThe Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal programs a lot of new music but that is not the point.
Read MoreChristopher Rouse is a tough composer to pin down and that stylistic unpredictability has, in part, provided his music notable expressive breadth.
Read MoreFelix Mendelssohn remains one of the West’s most underrated composers.
Read MoreThose assembled at Boston’s Jordan Hall were thoroughly prepared to be enraptured.
Read MoreHardly any of the under-60s generation can tell you who Serge Koussevitzky was or what his legacy consists of.
Read MoreElgar’s brilliant scoring in his Symphony no. 1 was front and center, in this performance not an end in itself but serving clearly expressive goals.
Read MoreNobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Rethinking the Repertoire #8 – Sibelius’s “Night Ride and Sunrise”
Surely the time has come for a major revival of Night Ride and Sunrise.
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