One of our foremost contemporary Bach interpreters, Dinnerstein also consistently celebrates the music of the now 89-year-old Philip Glass.
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Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra – ‘Healing Bach’
The vast and beautiful Church of St. Vincent Ferrer on Manhattan's East Side was an apt setting for Bach's cantatas.
Read More »Music Reviews: Isabelle Faust: ‘Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Continuo’; Hongyi Mo, John Etsell: ‘Métamorphoses: Poulenc on Violin and Piano’
Exemplary, living Bach from musicians with few equals at the repertoire; sensitive violin performances of Poulenc transcriptions and sonatas
Read More »Concert Review: Principal Brothers – James Lee III
A classical-music supergroup? That's the Principal Brothers: four Black principal (first-chair) woodwind players, who joined forces for a chamber concert with music from Bach to new works written for them.
Read More »Concert Review: Bach’s St. Matthew Passion at St. John the Divine
Where better to experience a work as capacious and religious as the 'St. Matthew Passion' by J.S. Bach than in one of the world's most cavernous churches?
Read More »Concert Review: The Dessoff Choirs – ‘Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight’ by Florence Price, plus Brahms, the Schumanns and More
Price's setting displays chordal majesty worthy of Handel; I felt I could sense the composer pouring all her power into the music.
Read More »Concert Review: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Xenia Löffler, Georg Kallweit
Georg Philipp Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, and – Johann Bernhard Bach? Akamus opened its concert by showing us that J.S. Bach and his sons weren't the only musical Bach-family members.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Lucas Debargue Deploys Bach, Beethoven and Chopin to Champion 20th-Century Composer Nicolas Medtner
Debargue played Bach, Beethoven and Chopin to set up a fiery performance of Russian composer Nicolas Medtner's youthful piano sonata.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Pianist Lucas Debargue on His Upcoming Carnegie Hall Concert
The French-born virtuoso will play music of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and two lesser-known composers at Carnegie Hall on February 2.
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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