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Concert Review: Pianist Tania Stavreva – ‘Kaleidoscope Rhythms!’ – Music of Chopin, Mompou, Vladigerov and More (NYC 11/15/15)
Stavreva champions composers from her native Bulgaria, plays a mean Chopin, and is unafraid to perform her own works of rumbling, percussive intensity.
Read More »Concert Review: Chiara String Quartet and Simone Dinnerstein – Piano Quintets: Brahms and Friedman (NYC Nov. 13)
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.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Carlo Grante’s ‘Masters of High Romanticism’ Brahms Program – Lincoln Center, NYC (2/10/15)
The pianist's intellectual approach to the music was loving and respectful as well.
Read More »Classical Superstars Lang Lang and Joshua Bell Both Releasing New Albums September 30
Pianist Lang Lang's new double album is dedicated entirely to Mozart, while Bell's recording is all Bach.
Read More »Music Review: Elton John – ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ [40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition]
'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' (40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) does a magnificent job in honoring one of the key records of the '70s.
Read More »Music Review: Tony DeSare – ‘PiANO’
The triple threat's impressive new release has the piano doing everything but the vocals.
Read More »TV Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra
Michael Douglas and Matt Damon give superb performances as Liberace and his young protege in Steven Soderbergh's surprisingly affecting biopic.
Read More »Music Review: Michel Camilo – What’s Up?
Michel Camilo's What's Up? is solo piano jazz at its finest.
Read More »Concert Review: James Blake – The Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA – 4/16/13
James Blake enchants in San Francisco with piano, soul, and dubstep, after a successful run at Coachella.
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