Juanjo Mena

Classical Album Reviews: James Ehnes performs Lalo, Saint-Saëns, & Sarasate and Benjamin Schmid plays Gulda & Weill

March 20, 2025
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Violinist James Ehnes and the BBC Philharmonic supply some truly great performances; violinist Benjamin Schmid revels in composer Friedrich Gulda’s freewheeling sense of play.

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Classical CD Review: Virtuoso Percussionist Colin Currie plays HK Gruber

May 1, 2021
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A welcome addition to Scottish percussionist Colin Currie’s endlessly fascinating discography – as well as to Austrian maverick HK Gruber’s.

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Concert Review: Gil Shaham and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Juanjo Mena

November 6, 2012
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Saariaho’s music is often lush and vibrant, to be sure, but it also can lose track of its musical purpose and meander excessively from time to time. Not so in “Circle Map.”

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