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Rob Sheffield seemed to have promised a whale of an original tale but delivered only a few goldfish.
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Four new albums: the standouts include the finest Andris Nelsons/BSO Shostakovich collaboration to date and the Neave Trio’s wonderful new French Moments.
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The action is set in an incongruous and ahistorical no-man’s land, adrift between realistic drama and farce.
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Colin Carr supplied an extraordinary performance of Bach’s Six Cello Suites.
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Conductor Aapo Häkkinen explores Robert Schumann’s writing for chorus;Andrew Manze caps off his three-volume Mendelssohn symphony survey with a glorious performance of the oddball Symphony no. 2.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual arts, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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Nightconcert contains enough that is new and fresh to make this album one of the exciting discoveries of the year.
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Strong discs from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Francois-Xavier Roth and his Paris-based period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles, and the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, an ad-hoc summer orchestra comprised of some of the U.S.’s finest conservatory musicians.
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Garth Edwin Sunderland’s new chamber adaptation of this opera’s score, is, to date, the Bernstein Centennial Year’s best and most important recording.
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You know a Cowboy Junkies tune the second that you hear it, but the songs don’t come off as formulaic or produced for mass consumption.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues