Music
This studio outing emphasizes superb ensemble playing; the result in a beguiling album in which just about every note shines.
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“You don’t really know how to perform bluegrass until you interact with others.”
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I’d like to close the first week of February with a recap of January’s new releases, the best and the worse.
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A memorable evening, headlined by a superb pianist who deserves a full hall, any time, anywhere.
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Path of Totality is a distinctive recording, put together with great attention to form and detail — and performed with enormous skill.
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Conducting Lumina, Andris Nelsons was entirely in his element, capably drawing out the music’s shimmering gestures — string flourishes, brass fanfares, woodwind filigrees, and the like – from a locked-in BSO.
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Pianist Kirill Gerstein’s take on Busoni is exhilarating; the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra serves the forceful music of composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and violinist Elina Vähälä does right by Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto.
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Fine recordings of symphonies by neglected American composers Florence Price and George Antheil; and a curious album from Cornelius Meister and the ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien.
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“It’s a very exciting prospect that your peers think your worthy to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.”
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In Memoriam — Sanford Sylvan (1953-2019)
Hearing Sanford Sylvan sing made one rich: spiritually, emotionally, musically.
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