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This was of the most satisfying chamber music performances I've experienced in NYC this year.
Read More »Concert Review: Isidore String Quartet, Anthony McGill – Beethoven, Brahms, and a James Lee III World Premiere
Tag Archives: clarinet
Forgotten Sounds: Graeme Steele Johnson on Resurrecting the 1897 Charles Martin Loeffler Octet
'Loeffler was ultimately too American for the European musical establishment and too European for the maverick sound of the New World—a predicament that effectively wrote him out of both musical histories.'
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Chineke! Orchestra in U.S. Debut with Anthony McGill – Mozart, Florence Price, Carlos Simon
The ethnically diverse orchestra from the UK made its U.S. debut at Lincoln Center with clarinetist Anthony McGill.
Read More »Concert Review: Chiara String Quartet with Clarinetist Todd Palmer (NYC, 11 May 2017)
The superb musicians of the Chiara offered Pierre Jalbert's fine new String Quartet No. 6 and, with Palmer, Brahms' Clarinet Quintet at the Metropolitan Museum.
Read More »Music Review: New Recordings of the Saint-Saëns Piano Trios and Brahms Clarinet Sonatas
Two new recordings of Romantic-era music from France and Germany are revealing in different ways.
Read More »Mr. Acker Bilk Topped the Music World 50 Years Ago
Mr. Acker Bilk was no stranger to the top of the charts a half-century ago.
Read More »Music Review: Monty Adkins – Four Shibusa
A powerful blend of woodwinds and electronic music.
Read More »Music Review: Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway – Live at the Library of Congress
Clarinet and piano make beautiful music together at the Library of Congress.
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