Music
The extremely prolific viol virtuoso Jordi Savall clearly has deep feelings about Celtic music.
Javier Perianes proved himself one of the elite pianists of our day, playing with such deep, inward focus.
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and conductor Teodor Currentzis are two of the most interesting figures in classical music today.
The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal programs a lot of new music but that is not the point.
Surely the time has come for a major revival of Night Ride and Sunrise.
Christopher Rouse is a tough composer to pin down and that stylistic unpredictability has, in part, provided his music notable expressive breadth.
Felix Mendelssohn remains one of the West’s most underrated composers.
Those assembled at Boston’s Jordan Hall were thoroughly prepared to be enraptured.
Jason Isbell has got sober, and his songs ring with the urgency of the newly recovered (and newly remarried, to his violinist Amanda Shires).
Rethinking the Repertoire #9 – Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony
So, is the “Gaelic” Symphony an unalloyed masterpiece? I’d argue in the affirmative.
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