Music
The throughline of “Town and Country” is folk — austere, hardscrabble.
Pianist Ahmad Jamal rose to fame by doing something completely different.
What unites country and hip-hop? An outlaw narrative.
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin does dazzlingly right by the symphonies of Mendelssohn.
A wonderful new performance of Mahler’s three orchestral song cycles; Daniel Reuss’s account of the oratorio Le Roi David is basically flawless.
Violinist Sebastian Bohren’s album is uneven; violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov have produced a wonder.
Of course, neither saxophonist sounds precisely like Coltrane: there would be no point in trying.
Chock-full of truly delightful music, the production scores as yet another BEMF opera triumph.
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