Performing music of Mozart, Richard Strauss, and 20th-century composer Jean Françaix, the four musicians played as one, like lifelong friends, with exquisite sensitivity and skill.
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Concert Review: Profeti della Quinta Sing Monteverdi and Salomone Rossi (NYC, 23 Feb 2017)
This exquisite vocal group puts on energetic, high-spirited concerts that free the ancient music of the Renaissance from the museum and dance it out into the town square.
Read More »Concert Review: MasterVoices – ‘The Saint John Passion’ by Bach at Carnegie Hall (NYC 9 Feb 2017)
The soloists shone both separately and in concert, as if distilling the work of the huge chorus behind them. I didn't want the penultimate piece, "O Sleep," sung by the chorus and then the soloists in counterpoint, to end.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Gábor Farkas (NYC, 2/2/2017)
The Hungarian pianist's clean-cut appearance and sober air contrasted with the full-tilt Romantic force he brought to these difficult works.
Read More »Concert Review: ‘Piaf! The Show’ Starring Anne Carrere at Carnegie Hall (NYC, Jan. 6 2017)
Refreshingly, the show doesn't focus on the tragic side of Édith Piaf's biography. It's nice to be reminded that her career was a deserved triumph, that sometimes popular audiences recognize greatness while the great one is alive to appreciate it.
Read More »Concert Review: SnowGlobe Music Festival 2016 (South Lake Tahoe, CA, 12/29-12/30)
Flume, The Chainsmokers, and Big Gigantic were among the featured artists at the electronic music festival SnowGlobe in South Lake Tahoe.
Read More »Concert Review: A Tribe Called Red – Kingston, Ontario (12/14/16)
A Tribe Called Red put on an amazing show incorporating First Nations drumming. If you get a chance, seem them, for an experience you'll never forget.
Read More »Concert Review: The Tallis Scholars – ‘A Renaissance Christmas’ (NYC, 12/10/2016)
One of the world's greatest early music ensembles graced the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Times Square with Christmas-themed music by Palestrina, Taverner, and other great composers of the Renaissance.
Read More »Concert Review: Capital Cities, Milky Chance, and More Rocked Radio 94.7 Electric Christmas 2016 (Sacramento, CA 12/8/16)
Capital Cities headlined Radio 94.7's 4th annual Electric Christmas concert event at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, CA on December 8.
Read More »Concert Review: Pauline Oliveros – ‘The Sound of Meditation’ (NYC, Nov 10 2016)
The journey seemed to wind across oceans, through jungles – and into caves, perhaps akin to the cistern recordings that gave birth to the composer's concept of "deep listening" back in the 1980s.
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