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.
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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 »Music Review: New York Festival of Song – Paul Bowles, ‘A Picnic Cantata’
Finally, New York Festival of Song has released a recording of this curiosity from 1953.
Read More »Maestro Long Yu, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Present World Premiere of Aaron Zigman’s Oratorio ‘Émigré’ November 17
This 90-minute oratorio tells the story of Jewish WWII-era refugees finding a home and community in Shanghai.
Read More »Concert Review: Cassatt String Quartet with Trombonist Haim Avitsur
The Cassatt Quartet played Beethoven, Victoria Bond, and works by Joan Tower and Adolphus Hailstork for the unconventional pairing of trombone and string quartet.
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 »Music Preview NYC: Beethoven, Shostakovich and More from Ariel Quartet, Philippe Quint, Marc-André Hamelin and Sergey Antonov
The Aspect Chamber Music Series presents the Ariel Quartet with music of Beethoven, and Philippe Quint, Marc-Andre Hamelin, and Sergey Antonov with Shostakovich and Prokofiev.
Read More »Camerata Salzburg, Musicus Soloists Hong Kong to Headline Musicus Fest 2023
Musicians from Austria, Italy, Canada, Australia, Korea, and Germany to join Hong Kong colleagues for a series of concerts and special events from Nov. 11 to Dec. 3 in Hong Kong.
Read More »Music Review: The Crossing – ‘Sumptuous Planet,’ a Secular Mass by David Shapiro
The composer set out to "advance a scientific, atheistic vision of the world" using the musical structure of a Christian Mass and modern choral idioms.
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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