album reviews
Schoenberg’s “Ode to Napoleon” and Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s “Eroica” make a forceful pairing in the pianist’s fierce, illuminating new album.
Recorded prior to a debilitating stroke and released a year afterward, Michael Kiwanuka’s album offers beautiful songs of pain, loneliness, heartbreak, and despair.
On “To Oscar With Love,” the jazz vocalist brings warmth, wit, and a fresh perspective to twelve songs by an underappreciated master storyteller.
On his third recording of Benjamin Britten’s three solo cello suites, the Dutch cellist brings lucid intensity to their knotty arguments and haunting lyricism.
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