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January Short Fuses — Materia Critica

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Short Fuses Tagged: Assembly Row, Cambodia, Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation, Drifting, ECM, Elieen Myles, Erato, Grove-Press, insanity, John Nelsons, Mark Favermann, Mette Henriette, Michael Spyres, Nick Seaver, Open-Letter, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Pathetic Literature, Roosters Crow Dogs Cry, The Conversation, University of Chicago Press, Wojciech Tochman

Classical Album Reviews: “Dance With Me” and “Eden”

Marvelously accomplished albums from American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alpha, Barbara Hannigan, Erato, Jonathan Blumhofer, Joyce DiDonato

Classical CD Reviews: Russia’s Silver Age, “Amici e Rivali,” and Jonathan Leshnoff’s Symphony no. 3

Daniil Trifonov’s Silver Age pays bracing tribute to fin-de-siecle and post-Revolutionary Russian music; Jonathan Leshnoff’s Third Symphony is smartly-written and affecting. What happens when tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres team up for an album of duets and ensembles from various Rossini operas? Fireworks.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Amici e Rivali, Daniil Trifonov, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, I Virtuosi Italiani, Jonathan Leshnoff, Reference Records

Classical CD Reviews: Beethoven Chamber Music, Part 2 – James Ehnes plays Violin Sonatas, Quatuor Ébene’s “Beethoven Around the World,” Lugansky Performs the Late Piano Sonatas

Violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong’s Beethoven violin sonatas feel and sound absolutely right; Quatuor Ébène’s comes up with one of this anniversary year’s few, true benchmark releases; Nikolai Lugansky’s traversal of three of Beethoven’s late piano sonatas is often admirable.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andrew Armstrong, Erato, Harmonia Mundi, James Ehnes, Nikolai Lugansky, Onyx, Quatour Ébène

Classical CD Reviews: Mariss Jansons’s “The Final Concert,” Ravel & Debussy Orchestral Works, and “Tudor Queens”

Mariss Jansons’ ultimate performance, taped live at Carnegie Hall, shows the maestro at the top of his game; François-Xavier Roth’s new recording of pieces by Ravel and Debussy is a bit of a hit-or-miss affair; Diana Damrau’s Tudor Queens, a survey of heroines from three Donizetti operas, is nothing short of terrific.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BR Klassik, Diana Damrau, Erato, Francois-Xavier Roth, LSO Live, Mariss Jansons

Opera Album Review: A Terrific Recording of a Handel Pathbreaker — Powered by a Rock-Star Mezzo-Soprano

Agrippina (1709), an enormous hit at the Met this past season, proves, by turns, gripping, sardonic, and exquisite.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Agrippina, Erato, George Frideric Handel, Joyce DiDonato, Met, Ralph P. Locke

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