Posts Tagged ‘John von Rhein’
TURNAGE Anna Nicole – Sep 23, 2011
The rise and fall of Anna Nicole Smith was a tawdry saga ripe for operatic burlesque. Lest you’ve forgotten, she was a bimbo from [...]
SCHUMAN On Freedom’s Ground – Aug 22, 2011
The William Schuman centenary came and went in 2010 with scant attention being paid, even by the musical institutions of New York, the city [...]
JOSEPH CALLEJA The Maltese Tenor – Aug 19, 2011
At 33, and with more than a decade of performances on the world operatic stage behind him, Joseph Calleja is moving from the tenore [...]
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1; Symphony No. 9 LIADOV Baba-Yaga; The Musical Snuff Box; Kikimora; The Enchanted Lake; Ballade – Aug 10, 2011
Lynn Harrell is one of America’s finest solo cellists and it is good to find him back in the recording studio. This new Artek [...]
HANDEL Ariodante – Jul 20, 2011
Ariodante (1735) is one of the richest musically and most involving dramatically of all of Handel’s operas. One of several adaptations of various parts [...]
MUHLY Seeing Is Believing – Jul 08, 2011
At 29, Nico Muhly is America’s hottest young classical composer; as such, he is getting attention all over the planet. His first opera, Two [...]
WINGING IT: PIANO MUSIC OF JOHN CORIGLIANO – Jun 10, 2011
The roll call of pianists who have recorded John Corigliano’s best-known solo piano work, the 1985 Fantasia on an Ostinato, is long and impressive: [...]
CARLOS KLEIBER I Am Lost to the World; Traces to Nowhere – May 20, 2011
Reclusive, brilliant, insecure, famously self-critical – a poetic perfectionist who was as fanatically demanding of himself as he was of the artists he chose [...]
IVES A Concord Symphony (orch. Brant) COPLAND Organ Symphony*
– May 04, 2011
In a sense, Charles Ives’s Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord, Mass., 1840-60) was a symphony just waiting to be sprung from the closet. By [...]
MUSTO Bastianello BOLCOM Lucrezia – Feb 21, 2011
Commonplace wisdom suggests that nobody is writing short comic operas anymore. Wrong! The enterprising New York Festival of Song added two such gems to [...]
