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Chopin

Book Review: “Chopin and His World”—A Kaleidoscopic View of His Works, His Life as a Polish Exile in Paris, and Even His Remarkable Hands

Chopin and His World establishes multiple new starting points for further studies of one of the world’s greatest composers, yet it can be read with pleasure by people who merely(!) love the music.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Chopin, Chopin and His World, Halina Goldberg, Jonathan D. Bellman, Princeton University Press

Concert Review: Pianist Maurizio Pollini — Chopin Performed Thrillingly

Maurizio Pollini’s Chopin was breathtakingly beautiful, and often downright thrilling.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Chopin, Maurizio Pollini, The Celebrity Series of Boston

Classical Music Review: Finally Joining the Cult of Tomsic

The audience went wild; Chopin’s Ballades do that to people. Cheering broke out after Dubravka Tomsic played the second ballade, and by the fourth, which starts out quietly like a lullaby and builds up to an all-out, rhapsodic, virtuosic tour de force, the entire audience seemed smitten. Dubravka Tomsic. Presented by the Celebrity Series at […]

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Music Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Chopin, classical, Dubravka Tomsic, piano

Classical Concert Review: Garrick Ohlsson’s Chopin

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson is helped by having unusually wide stretches in both hands. And like Chopin’s own playing, he never resorted to harshness or banging even in climactic passages. By Caldwell Titcomb Of all the musical events scheduled for this season I was most eagerly looking forward to the November 14 Symphony Hall recital by […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Music Tagged: Caldwell-Titcomb, Celebrity-Series, Chopin, Garrick Ohlsson

Culture Vulture: Homage to Chopin

By Helen Epstein After some peculiar programming last week, Tanglewood’s current weekend got off to a rousing start on Thursday night as Garrick Ohlsson gave a haunting, introspective, and idiosyncratic performance of Chopin. The program, emotion-packed and filled with delicacies as though the pianist could not bear to leave anything out, included nocturnes and mazurkas, […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured Tagged: Chopin, Classical Music, Culture Vulture, Garrick Ohlsson, Tanglewood

Classical Music Sampler: March 2010

By Caldwell Titcomb March 2: The Contemporary Music Ensemble in residence at Boston University, Alea III, under the direction of Theodore Antoniou, offers a free concert in celebration of the late eminent composer/teacher/conductor Lukas Foss (1922–2009). Works by Foss to be performed are “Echoi,” “For Toru,” “Elegy for Anne Frank,” “For Aaron,” “The Prairie,” and […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Music Tagged: ALEA III, Alexander Zemlinsky, Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Boston Jewish Music Festival, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Bruce Hangen, Caldwell-Titcomb, Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, Charles Fisk, Chopin, Christian Wolff, Classical Music, Gil-Rose, Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Harvard University Choir, James Levine, Jordan Hall, Lukas Foss, New Center for Arts and Culture, OperaHub, Peter Lieberson, Tallis Scholars, Theodore Antoniou, Welsh National Opera, Yo-Yo Ma

Classical Music Review: Emanuel Ax

By Caldwell Titcomb Jordan Hall in Boston was filled to capacity for the January 8 Celebrity Series recital by pianist Emanuel Ax. Now 60 years old, he has long harbored a reputation as a serious and thoughtful musician.

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Caldwell-Titcomb, Celebrity-Series, Chopin, Classical Music, Emanuel Ax, piano, Schumann

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