Crazy Girl Crazy

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.

Robert Israel August 5, 2020 at 8:20 am on Book Review: “The Atomic Bomb on My Back” — Witness to ApocalypseI would also recommend readers turn to Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe -- the Nobel literature laureate -- whose book "Hiroshima...
Bill Marx August 3, 2020 at 10:17 am on Book Review: “The Atomic Bomb on My Back” — Witness to ApocalypseThis anniversary should also send people to Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Michell's indispensable 1995 book Hiroshima in America: Fifty...
Bill Marx August 2, 2020 at 9:08 pm on Film Review: CREEM on Top — The Story of America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll MagazineYou are right -- fixed. Thanks ... got my loggerheads confused.
Milo Miles August 2, 2020 at 7:54 pm on Film Review: CREEM on Top — The Story of America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll MagazineSpeaking of loggerheads, it looks to me like Lester B is the guy on the right.
Ben Kissinger August 1, 2020 at 12:24 pm on Rethinking the Repertoire #6: Felix Mendelssohn’s “Die erste Walpurgisnacht”It,s good you are trying to hear Mendelssohn's music with fresh ears, (and text-reading eyes) but I think you have...