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Ralph Locke

Opera Album Review: The Boston Early Music Festival — One of the Best Recordings Ever of a Baroque Opera

The Boston Early Music Festival returns in person — and in a world-premiere recording of a German Baroque opera.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Antiochus and Stratonica, Christoph Graupner, Paul O'Dette, Ralph Locke, Stephen Stubbs, The Boston Early Music Festival

Opera Album Review: The “Fidelio” Story a Year Before Beethoven’s Opera — and in Italian

A new recording of Ferdinando Paër’s Leonora gives us characters we love (or love to hate) in a fresh light

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Alessandro de Marchi, CPO, Ferdinando Paër, Leonora, Ralph Locke

Opera Album Review: The Great Polish National Opera “Halka” Gets a Spirited and Shapely New Recording

Halka struts its stuff, impressively, in this new recording with an all-Polish cast conducted by internationally renowned Gabriel Chmura.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Gabriel Chmura., Magdalena Molendowska, Naxos, Poznań Opera, Ralph Locke, Stanislaw Moniuszko

Listening During Covid, Part 7: Celebrating the Diversity of American Music

New CD releases provide splendid performances of remarkable American music, from Barber and Bernstein to recently rediscovered Black composers Florence Price and William Grant Still.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Hand of Bridge, Aaron-Copland, Arthur Farwell, BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Candide, Carrie Jacobs-Bonds, Florence Price, Irina Meachem, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Kurt-Weill, Leonard Bernstein, London-Symphony-Orchestra, Lucas Meachem, Medea, Ralph Locke, Ricky Ian Gordon, Rubicon RCD, Samuel Barber, Shall We Gather, Stephen Foster, William Grant Still

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (September Entry)

Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s list includes such big names as Bob Dylan, ZZ Top, The Who, The Beach Boys, and George Rochberg.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review, Rock Tagged: Allen Michie, Bob-Dylan, Daniel Gewertz, George Rochberg, Ralph Locke, Surf's Up, The Beach Boys, The Who, Who's Next, ZZ Top

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (August Entry)

Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This month’s especially eclectic list includes The Allman Brothers Band, Roy Brown, Black Sabbath, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Jazz, Music, Popular Music, Rock Tagged: Allen Michie, Art Ensemble of Chicago, asta Ya… Revolución, At Fillmore East, Bach, Bill-Marx, Black Sabbath, Complete Cantatas, J.R. Carroll, Jason M. Rubin, Jeremy Ray Jewell, Masters of Reality, Phase One, Ralph Locke, Roy Brown, The Allman Brothers Band

Opera Album Review: August Enna’s Wagnerian “Kleopatra” — Revived on Danish Soil After 122 Years

August Enna’s colorful and vividly melodramatic score does justice to the robust exoticism of H. Rider Haggard’s novel.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: August Enna, DaCapo, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Danish National Opera Chorus, H. Rider Haggard, Joachim Gustafsson, Kleopatra, Odense Symphony, Ralph Locke

July 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: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Music, Rock, Short Fuses Tagged: 3 Pears Gallery, A.C. Wise, András Schiff, Bald, Bill-Marx, by Crosby, Déjà vu, ECM New Series, Elizabeth Chang, Jason M. Rubin, Jonathan Blumhofer, Ken Rush, Kenneth Hamilton, Koki Solo, Libra Records, Michael Ullman, Nash & Young., Natsuki Tamura, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Prima Facie Records, Ralph Locke, Romantic Piano Encores, Simon Critchley, Stills, Transformations, Wendy Darling

Classical CD Review: A Ballet of Human Sacrifice — Set in Ancient Mexico or Post–World War I Germany?

Egon Wellesz’s Weimar era critique of the cruelty of nations that are victorious in war still rings hauntingly true.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Dance, Music, Review Tagged: Bertolt Brecht, Capriccio, Die Opferung des Gefangenen, Egon Wellesz, Friedrich Cerha, Ralph Locke, The Sacrifice of the Prisoner)

Opera Album Review: A Version of One of Rossini’s Finest — Recorded on CD for the First Time

Rossini’s Zelmira is a powerhouse opera that features two coloratura tenors and equally demanding roles for soprano and mezzo.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Gianluigi Gelmetti, Gioachino Rossini, Gorecki Chamber Choir, Naxos, Ralph Locke, Virtuosi Brunensis, Zelmira

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