What's happening in composers' lives often reverberates in the music they produce. The Asepct Chamber Music Series explored this at a revealing concert.
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Concert Review (NYC): The Gesualdo Six Turn Grief Inside Out with ‘Lux Aeterna’
The British a cappella sextet sang baroque and contemporary music that touched on death and grieving but also love and redemption.
Read More »Concert Review: A Golden Wire, Nola Richardson, Kevin Payne – Baroque English Love Songs
A Golden Wire and friends looked back to the 17th century in the latest Aspect Chamber Music Series concert.
Read More »Concert Review: Avant-Garde Showcase Marks Ursula Oppens’ 80th Birthday
Eight pianists, eight composers: A concert tribute honored pianist and contemporary music champion Ursula Oppens as she turned 80.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Lucas Debargue Deploys Bach, Beethoven and Chopin to Champion 20th-Century Composer Nicolas Medtner
Debargue played Bach, Beethoven and Chopin to set up a fiery performance of Russian composer Nicolas Medtner's youthful piano sonata.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Clarion Choir Sings Rachmaninoff and World Premiere of ‘Vigil for Peace’ by Alexander Levine
The Clarion Choir's, precision, dynamics, balance, and overall musicality are always at the highest level.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): The Sebastians with the Yale Voxtet – ‘Voices of Versailles’
I wish more people knew how fun Baroque music can be. The instrumental ensemble The Sebastians and the superb singers of the Yale Voxtet joined forces to prove it.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): The Ariel String Quartet Offers a Lesson in Beethoven
The Ariel String Quartet and Beethoven biographer Jan Swafford shed light on the Early Quartets with Op. 18 No. 6 and more.
Read More »Concert Review: The Orchestra Now – ‘Exodus: Jewish Composers in Exile’
The Orchestra Now presented music from the 1940s by four composers who had fled their European homelands to escape the Nazis.
Read More »Concert Review: Vox Luminis – ‘The Early Cantatas’ (Bach, Buxtehude)
The Belgian early music ensemble beautifully sheds light on Bach's early cantatas and on one major source of his inspiration.
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