Music
Opera Album Review: A Fittingly Fresh First Recording of a Flexible One-Acter by Donizetti’s Teacher
Johann Simon Mayr’s delicious L’Accademia di musica gets a spiffy performance from the “Rossini in Wildbad” Festival.
Such Ferocious Beauty ranks among the best of the Cowboy Junkies’ work — you can feel the band challenging itself, thriving in the tumult it generates.
A rare Black female instrumentalist band leader, whose improvisations on the harp were the equal of any horn, Dorothy Ashby deserves a respected place in jazz historiography.
Like Thin Lizzy, Minx marries metallic thunder with melodic structures and lyrics worth listening to.
Boston Calling reached some highs this year, sealed by perfect weather.
So why am I going to write about the Nuggets concert for a New England outlet? Because, totally surprising to me, there was a lot of Boston in the show.
This is an album of top-notch orchestral playing. Yet the real star is Karina Canellakis.
Until this album, I had no idea that the Grateful Dead and salsa could blend together with such force and fun.
The best items in this all-Mozart album are the concertos.
The music of the Duke Robillard Band may go back a long way, but there was nothing retro about the bittersweet, funky, lowdown sounds that rocked Jimmy’s.
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