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Classical Album review: Clarinetist Anthony McGill’s “American Stories”

These stories occupy their own, distinctive spaces but they share something intangible. A kind of humanity, maybe? Perhaps.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Music, Review Tagged: American Stories, Anthony McGill, Cedille, Pacifica Quartet

Classical Album Review: “When There Are No Words…” — Do Music and Politics Mix?

When There Are No Words presents six pieces written between 1936 and 1980 by composers responding (at least seemingly) to contemporaneous political events and situations.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: "When There Are No Words", Alex Klein, Cedille, Phillip Bush

January Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Rock, Short Fuses Tagged: Adam Ellsworth, Bill-Marx, Cedille, CMA, Dover String Quartet, E.O. Wilson, Jonathan Blumhofer, Kenneth Hamilton, Lou Harrison, Oasis: Knebworth 1996, Ralph P. Locke, The Creation, The Real Stormin' Norman, Tim Jackson

Classical Album Review: “Here With You” — Fitting Music for the End of a Bittersweet Year

Johannes Brahms’s wistful 1894 Clarinet Sonatas receive fantastic performances.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Anthony McGill, Cedille, Gloria Chien, Here with You

Classical Music Review: “Dreams of a New Day — Songs by Black Composers”

The young baritone Will Liverman’s performances are full of spirit and a wide range of moods.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Cedille, Dreams of a New Day -- Songs by Black Composers, Ralph P. Locke, Will Liverman

Classical Album Review: Lincoln Trio’s Splendid “Trios from the City of Big Shoulders”

One of the year’s stand-out releases: full of wonderful music, all of it well worth getting to know, and played to the hilt.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Cedille, Lincoln Trio, Trios from the City of Big Shoulders

Classical CD Reviews: Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto, Project W

Arguably, the strongest entry in the BSO’s complete Shostakovich symphony cycle thus far; Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2016 Cello Concerto is emotionally direct and, at times, simply gorgeous; the resurgence of interest in the music of Boston-educated composer Florence Price is a good thing.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cedille, Deutsche Grammophon, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Florence Price, Sony Classical

Classical CD Reviews: “Visions and Variations,” “Songs From Chicago,” and Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts Beethoven and Ravel

A triumphant disc from A Far Cry, some fresh thinking from Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Israel Philharmonic, and Thomas Hampson, a great purveyor of American song, focuses on Chicago.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Far Cry, Beethoven and Ravel, Cedille, Crier Records, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Helicon, Songs from Chicago, Thomas Hampson, Visions and Variations

Year-end CD Round-up, Part 1: Rosanne Philippens’ Prokofiev, Dover Quartet’s “Voices of Defiance,” Longleash’s “Passage,” Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 4, and Barbara Hannigan’s “Crazy Girl Crazy”

Reviews of performances that are energetic, immediate, muscular, and simply breathtaking.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alpha, Barbara Hannigan, Cedille, Channel Classics, Crazy Girl Crazy, Longleash, Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 4, New Focus Recordings, Passage, Prokofiev, Rosanne Philippens, SWR Classics, The Dover Quartet, Viktor Ullmann, Voices of Defiance

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