Music
With two able bandmates, Fred Hersch is inspired to unwind a nice set of standards and a few originals.
Sophisticated Giant paints a convincing picture of an extremely charming, intelligent, resilient, and talented man.
I was excited, moved, impressed, and surprised by Handel & Haydn Society’s performance of The Messiah under the exacting baton of Bernard Labadie.
How will others in the Southern hip-hop scene react to this embrace of tradition by a Southern rapper with his feet firmly in the Gangsta Rap arena?
Kelly Green and her trio are essentially mainstream players, but they explore a lot of challenging territory within that framework.
When it comes to raising high spirits, the BEMF’s delightful Alcina was an inspired choice.
“I see myself as I’ve always seen myself, as a pop musician in a folk genre.”
Without question, this BPYO rendition of Shostakovich Ten was one of the most urgent and necessary of any symphonic score I’ve heard all year.
This set is surely one of the finds of the year.
This recording challenges our settled sense of what art music, in conjunction with colorful spoken and sung verse, can accomplish.
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