Month: November 2018
Kelly Green and her trio are essentially mainstream players, but they explore a lot of challenging territory within that framework.
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When it comes to raising high spirits, the BEMF’s delightful Alcina was an inspired choice.
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“I see myself as I’ve always seen myself, as a pop musician in a folk genre.”
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The Other Side of the Wind may inspire brooding melancholy in some, but it’s also pretty damned fine.
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Diane Williams’s brusque vision of a perverse life force mesmerizes.
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“I still remember; I sat in his class, and I felt my future changing as he spoke.”
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Without question, this BPYO rendition of Shostakovich Ten was one of the most urgent and necessary of any symphonic score I’ve heard all year.
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Perhaps Eugène Delacroix is best regarded as a leader of the resistance to academic art, part of the transition to impressionism.
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This set is surely one of the finds of the year.
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This recording challenges our settled sense of what art music, in conjunction with colorful spoken and sung verse, can accomplish.
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