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Concert Review (NYC): American Classical Orchestra and ACO Chorus – ‘RENEW,’ Music by Johann Sebastian Bach (5 April 2022)
Who better than the American Classical Orchestra and Chorus to bring us J.S. Bach on period instruments?
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Nicolas Namoradze (NYC, 10 Feb 2019)
The newest Honens International Piano Competition winner demonstrated in his Carnegie Hall debut his deep interest in musical resonances over the centuries.
Read More »Concert Review: Quodlibet Ensemble – Music by Biber, Martynov + Sharlat
Composer Yevgeniy Sharlat takes Bach's English Suite No. 2 as a starting point, and engineers energetic rhythmic surprises, ear-catching counterpoint, and busy, angsty drama in a prismatic work of accessible modernism.
Read More »Music Reviews: Tesla Quartet – Haydn, Ravel, Stravinksy; Amit Peled – Bach Cello Suites
The Tesla Quartet makes a strong debut with Ravel and more, while Amit Peled plays Bach's Cello Suites 1-3 on Pablo Casals' instrument.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Marc-André Hamelin at Carnegie Hall (NYC, 15 November 2018)
Hamelin's magical concert program flowed from Bach-Busoni to Schumann to Chopin, with twinkling detours into the 20th century.
Read More »Concert Review: Vox Luminis – Motets of J.S. Bach (NYC, 28 October 2018)
In the hands of a gifted group like Vox Luminis, Bach's motets exhibit the great composer's artistic genius as fully as anything else he wrote.
Read More »Concert Review: Fretwork – ‘J.S. Bach – The Art of Fugue’ (NYC, 12 April 2018)
Bach's contrapuntal masterpiece took flight in the hands of one of the world's premiere viol consorts.
Read More »Music Review: Isabelle Faust and Kristian Bezuidenhout – ‘J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord’
All told, these are some of Bach's most compelling and beautiful works, and it's hard to imagine a finer performance than this.
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.
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