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March 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, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: Alice Phoebe Lou, Antigone, Arch-Conspirator, Backwoodz Studioz, Blake Maddux, Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub, Buffalo Philharmonic, Christian Tezlaff, Clea Simon, Donna Leon, Eyelids, Garret Shanley, Greek Tragedy, Grove Atlantic, JoAnn Falletta, Lars Vogt, Lorcan Finnegan, Margaret Bonds, Mark Favermann, MIT Press, Nocebo, Ondine, science-fiction, SKECH185, So Shall You Reap, Sophocles, Steve Erickson, Steven Beaucher, Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence, strongboi, Tanya Tetzlaff, Veronica Roth, Ziv Yamin

Classical Album Review: Thomas Adès’s Tuneful “Märchentänze”

As the composer moves from youth to middle age, Thomas Adès is unique among his contemporaries for his singular embrace of melody, harmony, and form.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Märchentänze, Ondine, Pekka Kuusisto, Thomas Ades

September 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, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: (Irresistible/Revolutionary), Al Foster, Bill-Marx, Candid Records, Coleman Hawkins, Columbia University Press, Craig Davis, Darren Byler, Dodo Marmarosa, Ex Tenebris Lux, Faya Dayi, Jazz Reunion, Jessica Beshir, Mark Favermann, Norah Jones, Ondine, Pee Wee Russell, Peter Keough, Regina Spektor, Roger Lewis, Smoke Sessions Records, Steve Provizer, The Backstreets, Tone Paintings: The Music of Dodo Marmarosa, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė

Classical Album Reviews: Mendelssohn Violin Sonatas and Piano Concertos

Some substantial works by composer Felix Mendelssohn remain overlooked.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien, Hyperion Records, Ondine

Classical Album Review: A Completely Refreshing “Americascapes”

A terrific album, commandingly played, that adds to our knowledge and appreciation of this too-long neglected repertoire.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Americascapes, Basque National Orchestra, Jonathan Blumhofer, Ondine, Robert Trevino

Classical Album Review: Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s “Saudade” — Engrossing and Accessible Recent Orchestral Music

Taken together, these four pieces showcase a composer whose handling of the orchestra is expert and whose sense of form, in these works at least, feels unerringly right.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Ondine, Saudade, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė

Classical Reviews: Boston Modern Orchestra Project plays Harold Shapero, Peter Lieberson’s “Songs of Love and Sorrow,” and Charles Ives’s Complete Symphonies

Discs dedicated to overlooked composers Harold Shapero and Peter Lieberson are well worth your attention. Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra don’t do well by Charles Ives’ final symphony, but the three preceding symphonies fare better.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Charles Ives, Deutsche Grammophon, Gustavo-Dudamel, Harold Shapero, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Ondine, Peter Lieberson, Songs of Love and Sorrow

Classical CD Reviews: François-Xavier Roth conducts Mussorgsky and Ravel, Manfred Honeck conducts Tchaikovsky and Leshnoff, and Mikolajus Čiurlionis Orchestral Works

François-Xavier Roth and his period ensemble Les Siècles serve up freshness of playing and conviction of interpretation; Manfred Honeck is a conductor who can draw compelling, electrifying accounts of the standard canon as if on cue; the verdict’s mixed on the music of Lithuanian-born composer Mikalojus Čiurlionis.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Francois-Xavier Roth, Harmonia Mundi, Jonathan Leshnoff, Les Siècles, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, Mikalojus Čiurlionis, Mondestas Pitrenas, Ondine, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Reference Recordings

Classical CD Reviews: James MacMillan’s Viola Concerto, Magnus Lindberg’s “Accused,” and Richard Rodney Bennett Orchestral Works

James MacMillan’s Viola Concert is a magnificent addition to the repertoire; the debut recording of Magnus Lindberg’s song cycle Accused leaves a bit to be desired; a fetching, brilliant gathering of orchestral music by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Chandos, Hyperion, Ondine

Classical CD Reviews: Christian Tetzlaff plays Beethoven & Sibelius, Rachel Barton Pine takes on Dvorak & Khachaturian, and Wagner’s “Siegfried “

Christian Tetzlaff’s brilliant account of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto makes for a great album; Rachel Barton Pine’s versions of Dvorák and Khachaturian violin concertos are songful; orchestrally, Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra’s Sigfried is unfailingly colorful and fresh.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Avie, Christian Tetzlaff, Hallé, Halle Orchestra, Ondine, Rachel Barton Pine, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder, Teddy Abrams

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