Music
The group’s exuberance makes it easy to like, an enthusiasm that is compounded by the quality of its live shows and its recordings.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
An American Mosaic is a fascinating study of how a contemporary composer can fuse the gestures and syntax of a tradition rooted in Bach with contemporary sensibilities.
These are tough, feisty, devastating pieces — easily among the 20th century’s finest symphonies — and they receive ferocious readings from Antonio Pappano and the LSO.
As we emerge from the pandemic, Rostam’s Changephobia strikes the right healing notes for fatigued ears.
If you’re up for a lofty challenge, the experimental British rock outfit Black Midi is more than poised to fill the void.
This fine documentary of a highly respected elder bassist presents a clear, focused picture of a man who is also a jazz musician.
The composer of Les huguenots and L’Africaine was already an accomplished master at age 26, as this first-rate recording reveals.
Any number of threads that tie these three pieces (and composers) together. But in this instance, such busywork is superfluous: the musical results – blazingly played and flawlessly recorded – speak for themselves.
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