Music
“I want our music to be genre-less. Actually I want it to be genre-more.”
River Music will satisfy the slightly adventurous listener as few other records I heard last year.
Here are 12 albums that come out in 2018 that I liked.
Trumpeter Jason Palmer is a master of rhythmic displacement.
“Five hundred years from now, people will come to that album the way that people come to Wagner and Beethoven. This is a classical piece from our era.”
The unmistakable flavor of R&B can be found throughout Charley Crockett’s work
Chopin and His World establishes multiple new starting points for further studies of one of the world’s greatest composers, yet it can be read with pleasure by people who merely(!) love the music.
Our critic’s year-end tally of the classical albums that, in looking back over 2018, stand tallest – plus a few that didn’t make the bar.
Classical Music Commentary: Poetic Narratives in the Concert Hall, and a New Recording of Dvořák’s “The Spectre’s Bride”
A reflection on the whole tradition of combining longish narrative poems to music, especially for performance in a concert hall by large forces (e.g., singers and orchestra).
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