Music
“The pressure, I believe, is the responsibility to work on your gift. It’s God’s gift, a calling for me to share.”
Daniel Carter’s disc revolves, splendidly, around a process of self-discovery.
As good an interpreter of large-scale forms as he’s becoming, Andris Nelsons has always been a terrific conductor of new music.
Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s Rachmaninov album is magnificent; the Münchner Rundfunkorchester do right by Franz von Suppé’s overtures, and the Romantic Piano Concerto series continues to unearth gems.
Skylark performed an inventive and highly enjoyable program of music and tales from Norse Mythology and the land of the Vikings.
Hilary Hahn supplies a disc of immaculate Bach; conductor Sakari Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic play music by Rued Langgaard to the hilt.
Andris Nelsons presided over an interpretation of Mahler’s Symphony #2 that was both tightly controlled and emotionally cathartic.
Don Byron’s repertoire doesn’t just focus on the bebop era — nor is it self-consciously hip.
These albums, featuring Woody Shaw and Dexter Gordon, are illuminating to listen to side by side.
What the box set makes adamantly, abundantly clear is how egalitarian Joe Strummer’s musical vision truly was. If you don’t already know his solo work, you should.
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