Music
JoAnn Falletta’s recording of Schreker’s orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a strong advocate for Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto.
Violinist Viktoria Mullova supplies one of the year’s most programmatically-cohesive and thoughtfully-executed albums.
What wasn’t there to love about 20th-century music on a night like this? In a word, nothing.
Jazz band Dirigo Rataplan explores what could be described as ‘chamber expressionism.’
MassOpera opened their season with a workshop of a new opera, something they’ve never done before.
Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a three character comic opera that combines elements of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit and Perry Mason.
Time For Romance: But Beautiful may qualify — if I can even use the term now — as seduction music.
His beautiful sound is undimmed by time, his sensitivity to nuance is intact, and his choice of virtuoso partners was a delight.
If Charlie Harmon’s story jumps around a bit and reads rather like a series of diary entries, it’s at the very least engaging and, for the most part, entertaining.
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