Tag Archives: classical music

This album will indeed cause your heart and spirit to rise.

If you're not familiar with these early modern Spanish composers, this sensitively played album is a fine place to start.

When we think of Surrealism, we think of poetry and visual art, not music. But a surreal evening came to pass nonetheless the other night at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

Four musicians including world-famous cellist Mischa Maisky gathered for a concert commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide. Music by Russian and Armenian composers made up a program that asserted the power of art to challenge cruelty and violence.

Two recent albums that do new things with very old music.

Stavreva champions composers from her native Bulgaria, plays a mean Chopin, and is unafraid to perform her own works of rumbling, percussive intensity.

Jefferson Friedman's sharply modernistic but accessible new 'The Heart Wakes Into' paired nicely with Brahms's Quintet in F minor at the Metropolitan Museum.

Mozart's unearthly achievement with his unfinished 'Requiem' was on glorious display.

This entertaining, amusing, and artistically rewarding evening evoked the music and the spirit of the Paris salon culture that sponsored and inspired many artists, musicians, and writers of great fame.

As the boat rocked – luckily, mostly gently – Segev gave an account of these difficult pieces that was impressive both technically and idiomatically.