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Classic Music Album Review: Quatuor Diotima — György Ligeti’s “Metamorphosis”

Quatuor Diotima evince a thorough command of György Ligeti’s style, as well as a breathtaking grasp of the demands he makes on the instruments.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: György Ligeti, Pentatone, Quatuor Diotima

Classical Album Review: The Late Pianist Lars Vogt — A Brilliant and Immensely Loved Musician

I feel that I have lost a dear friend whom I met through profoundly heartfelt recordings and, in the form of interviews, inspiring self-portraits.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Ian Bostridge, Lars Vogt, Pentatone, Schwanengesang, Susan Miron

August 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: Andrew Staples, Booker Little, Candid Records, Capella Amsterdam, Charles Mingus Presents, Climate Change, Coach House Books, Daniel Reuss, David Lang, Dream States: Smart Cities, Francois-Xavier Roth, Harmonia Mundi, How to Live at the End of the World, Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Mark Favermann, Much Ado About Nothing, Out Front, Pentatone, Sasha Ray, Semyon Bychkov, Shakespeare & Company, Stanford University Press, Steve Provizer, Technologies and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias, Travis Holloway, Wedding Season

Listening During Covid, Part 11: Making Classical Music New in All Kinds of Ways

Two exquisite sopranos bring us refreshing songs, arias, and cantatas; and a noted Broadway composer and a remarkable Black librettist offer a searing opera about police brutality.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Carolyn Sampson, Chen Reiss, Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn: Arias, Gordon Hawkins, Jeanine Tesori, Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Lieder, Onyx, Overtures, Pentatone, Ralph P. Locke, Tazewell Thompson, Trennung: Songs of Separation

October Short Fuses – Materia Critica

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

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Short Fuses Tagged: A Story That Happens, Allen Michie, Bill-Marx, Bis, BMOP/sound, Dalkey Archive Press, Dan O'Brien, Deutsche Grammophon, Fear & Fantasy, Gerald Peary, Gil-Rose, Hard Luck Love Song, Jason Isbell, Jason M. Rubin, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Jonathan Blumhofer, Justin Corsbie, Justin Hayward, Kristy Edmunds, Krystian Zimerman, La Reine de Saba, Luz, Mark Favermann, MASS MoCA, Mauricio J. Rodriguez, Nico Muhly, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Odyssey Opera, Paul Robicheau, Pentatone, Vapors of Morphine

Classical CD Reviews: François-Xavier Roth and Schumann, Herbert Blomstedt and Brahms, and Daniel Barenboim and Elgar

Françoix-Xavier Roth delivers a must-have cycle of Robert Schumann’s symphonies; Herbert Blomstedt’s Brahms’s Symphony no. 1 is spacious, restrained, and – too often – dull; Daniel Barenboim’s latest Elgar installment features a regrettably unsung masterpiece.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Daniel Barenboim, Decca, Francois-Xavier Roth, Herbert Blomstedt, Myrios Classics, Pentatone

Classical CD Reviews: Michael Tilson Thomas’ “From the Diary of Anne Frank,” Nielsen Symphonies nos. 1 & 2, and Arabella Steinbacher’s “Four Seasons”

This San Francisco Symphony release proves to be a fitting send-off for music director Michael Tilson Thomas; there’s much to admire in the Seattle Symphony’s playing of Carl Nielsen’s first two symphonies; fiery energy from both violinist Arabella Steinbacher and the excellent Münchener Kammerorchester make their new disk a gem.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Arabella Steinbacher, Carl Nielsen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Münchener Kammerorchester, Pentatone, Seattle Symphony, SFS Media, Thomas Dausgaard

Classical CD Reviews: Beethoven Complete Piano Concerto Box Sets

It’s Beethoven’s 250th birthday year: reviews of four sets of the complete piano concertos from, respectively, Paul Lewis, Stewart Goodyear, Inon Barnatan, and Stephen Hough.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Alan Gilbert, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Inon Barnatan, Jiri Belohlavek, Orchid Classics, Paul Lewis, Pentatone, Stephen Hough, Stewart Goodyear

Classical CD Reviews: Offenbach Fantastique!, Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana,”and Rossini Project vol. 2

More proof that Offenbach’s is a remarkable body of work; a serviceable, but not particularly notable, Cavalleria rusticana; another installment in the Rossini Project, brilliantly curated, stirringly played and sung, and beautifully recorded.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: concerto, Genuin, Pentatone

Classical CD Reviews: “Aspects of America: The Pulitzer Edition,” Morton Gould “Symphonettes,” and Lindberg conducts Bernstein

Lovers of American music, don’t miss Aspects of America: The Pulitzer Edition ; Lindberg’s recording of Leonard Bernstein’s first two symphonies lacks a compelling command of the musician’s singular voice; the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra tackles four pieces by Morton Gould.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Arthur Fagin, Aspects of America: The Pulitzer Edition, Bis, Christian Lindberg, Leonard Bernstein, Morton Gould, Naxos, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pentatone

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