Review
Handel & Haydn Society’s Haydn and Mozart is about as good as it gets; Martyn Brabbins’ recording of A Sea Symphony is one of the year’s best releases; and for elegance and technical command, you can’t go wrong with Tilson Thomas and his San Francisco Symphony.
When Vermont’s Mountain Man brings us its Appalachian vocal stylings the trio is venturing into the hollers of both the Green and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
This blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.
Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet delivers some fine Mozart; conductor Hannu Lintu brings rhythmic energy and textural transparency to the music of Witold Lutoslawski; Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra don’t do right by Berlioz.
Shoplifters is a masterpiece about the underclass that effortlessly explores emotional complexity amid moral contradictions.
The vacuousness of the digital world and the mainstream media is an easy target.
Rams is a documentary film carefully crafted to be more than a biography of a great designer.
American String Quartet’s disc features the premiere recording of Robert Sirota’s String Quartet no. 2, American Pilgrimage.
With two able bandmates, Fred Hersch is inspired to unwind a nice set of standards and a few originals.
Sophisticated Giant paints a convincing picture of an extremely charming, intelligent, resilient, and talented man.
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