Percussion music can sound dry and detached. Most of the music on Portland Percussion Group's new album is anything but.
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Music Review: La Compagnia del Madrigale – ‘Giaches de Wert: Nono Libra de Madrigali, 1588’ (Ninth Book of Madrigals)
An Italian early-music vocal ensemble that specializes in madrigals explores the music of a great composer and word-painter.
Read More »Music Review: Richard Carrick and Either/Or – ‘l’Algérie’
Richard Carrick is out with the second part of his Maghreb-inspired triptych, which began with last year's 'The Atlas.'
Read More »Music Review: Pianist Illia Ovcharenko – ‘Manu Sinistra,’ Concertos for the Left Hand
The 2022 Honens International Piano Competition winner releases his Pentatone debut with concertos for the left hand by Ravel, Prokofiev, and Sergei Bortkiewicz, all composed for pianist Paul Wittgenstein in the early 20th century.
Read More »Music Review: Jonathan Bagg – ‘Viola Revival,’ 20th-century American Works by Marion Bauer, Ulysses Kay, and Margaret Bond
There's always more to discover in the annals of 20th-century American music. Violist Jonathan Bagg makes valuable contributions to our awareness of some worthy viola repertoire – and of some neglected American composers.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Conductor Dane Lam on New Album, Globe-trotting, and Why ‘Classical Music Is Better’
Dane Lam is the only conductor to simultaneously hold leadership positions at major institutions in the U.S. Australia, and Asia. His new recording of music by Chinese composer Xiaogang Ye seemed a good opportunity to find out what the globe-trotting conductor has been up to.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Monte Cristo,’ a New Off-Broadway Musical
A beautifully designed and executed production, with Broadway-star singing and acting, is partly spoiled by some questionable-at-best creative decisions.
Read More »Music Review: Eric Moe – ‘Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years’
A job interview in music form? Skillful interplay among the instruments and the contrasting moods of the responses show once again a sensibility deeply rooted in the human.
Read More »Opera / Theater Review: Mannes Opera – ‘The Silent Serenade,’ Erich Korngold Operetta in U.S. Premiere
How often does a student opera company get to stage the U.S. premiere of a work by a major 20th-century composer? Mannes Opera has done just that with Erich Wolfgang Korngold's 'The Silent Serenade'
Read More »Words and Music: Two Sides of Patrice Michaels
Ginsburg and Scalia weren't the only music-loving Justices. In a previously unreleased song, Michaels adapted and set the text of a letter from Justice David H. Souter praising a classical album.
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