Review
Soprano Ruby Hughes’ album is fine, well played, sung, and programmed; baritone Christoph Prégardien delivers vocal works by Mahler, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Max Reger with warmth; soprano Diana Damrau is in her glorious prime singing the songs of Strauss.
Peter Frase envisions how our current bedeviling social contradictions and economic abuses may play out in the future.
Isabelle Faust makes Arnold Schoenberg’s thorny Violin Concerto sing; Mariss Jansons lends heft to Saint-Saëns’ Symphony no. 3, and John Wilson continues to be your go-to conductor for Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
English writer Ian Shircore’s book-length study gives Clive James’ poems the loving attention they deserve.
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin’s pairing of Beethoven with Knecht is intelligent, programmatically and musically, but Thierry Fischer’s Symphony fantastique is a disappointing misfire.
Netflix’s Ares is a glossy sociopolitical/supernatural thriller from the Netherlands.
Last Desert proves that guitarist Liberty Ellman and his group can dance when they want
Little Fires Everywhere borders on being binge worthy; it’s a shame Hulu didn’t release all the episodes of the series at once.
Eschewing ostensible flash and musical sleight of hand, Without Deception is a treat for connoisseurs.
Whatever might be dark about these stories may also be — since they’re reliably witty and frequently very funny — a welcome distraction and relief from current events.
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