Music
John Nelson’s La Damnation de Faust is a triumph; you will rarely encounter Villa-Lobos played with greater understanding or in better sound than here; Paavo Järvi and his orchestra’s survey of Messiaen orchestral works early and late is resplendent.
While Samantha Fish shines with her guitar work on the new album, she impressed more with her singing live.
Five tunes that will make it impossible to have a Blue Christmas.
A fresh, bracing take on Beethoven as a dramatist, Tesla Quartet serves up refreshingly direct and emotionally-complex performances of Mozart, and flautist Emmanuel Pahud has crafted an ear-catching, unpredictable program.
Our expert music critics serve up their usual highly eclectic round-up of the year’s most memorable.
Billy Strings is deservedly catching fire with a unique blend of mind-snapping talent as a guitarist, deep appreciation for tradition, appetite for improvisation and experimentation, and ever-improving songwriting.
This year’s Revels is more than a parade of Christmas songs and stories that tap deep into America’s European and African past.
I had never heard of Marcus Paus before, but his work I Hate Men, set to witty verses by Dorothy Parker, proved to be one of the most entertaining and engaging pieces I have heard in recent years.
The current incarnation of the Swingle Singers, just called Swingles, exemplifies why the group has survived 57 years.
Top Classical Concerts and Recordings of 2019
Classical music continued to thrive, locally and globally, in 2019.
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