Review
This shaggy dog story, set in the bowels of Manhattan, in the yet to be gentrified bohemian enclave of SoHo, presented an opportunity for Martin Scorsese to return to bare-bones filmmaking.
Despite the lack of background or explanation for the occult item at the center of “Talk to Me,” I found it relatively easy to suspend my disbelief and become caught up in the story’s momentum.
Move over, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók: the pantheon of great Third Piano Concertos is growing.
This uncomplicated version of Shakespeare’s tragedy comes off as a rousing tale of murder under a starlit Boston sky that obligingly lights Macbeth’s “black and deep desires.”
This new recording of Charles Villiers Stanford’s”Requiem” by Martyn Brabbins, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), and the University of Birmingham Voices, is beautiful and often memorable.
Alan Paul’s meticulous, in-depth research lays out many of the pieces needed to help the reader think more deeply about this era.
An album that does admirable justice to one of the most prolific, significant, and increasingly long-lived composers of a remarkable generation.
The guitarist led his razor-sharp band through two sets steeped in bluegrass that, at any given moment, could erupt into psychedelic jams, old-school country, metallic thrashing, or jazzy forays.
Randall Goosby’s sophomore album proves that the violinist is the real deal.
In this splendid album, pianist Kristin Ditlow shares her love of the piano in melody-drenched works from many lands and peoples.
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