JoAnn Falletta

March Short Fuses — Materia Critica

March 2, 2023
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Classical CD Reviews: JoAnn Falletta conducts Schreker, Manfred Honeck conducts Beethoven & Strauss, and Baiba Skride’s “American Concertos”

October 10, 2018
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JoAnn Falletta’s recording of Schreker’s orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a strong advocate for Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto.

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Classical Music CDs: Orchestral Music from “The Ring” and Michael Tippett’s Symphonies nos. 1 & 2

February 1, 2018
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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra gives sold readings of two Michael Tippett symphonies.

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