Review
There’s a pleasing variety in this collection, which serves up valuable music that might not have otherwise been heard.
Theresa Rebeck’s foodie comedy Seared is more of an amiable appetizer than a substantial entree.
Put bluntly, Mathematics for Human Flourishing is quite possibly the most profound meditation on mathematics I have read.
In Maria Baranda’s poetry there is the constant oscillation between beauty and ugliness, elegance and terror, the empowering journey and the overwhelming nightmare.
I don’t recall encountering a recent Baroque recording that is sung with such a fine balance of smoothness and character.
Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in Montserrat gave birth to some great ’80s music, then succumbed to the elements.
Russian poet Osip Mandelstam’s “ancient language” is rendered into real contemporary poetry in English that succeeds in speaking eloquently to the inner eye and ear.
As an example of historical revisionism, The Commune proffers a valuable representation of the cultural, political, and class dynamics that animated the Women’s Liberation Movement.
This new recording would be a great, and inexpensive, way to enter the sound world of Rossini’s mature operas.
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