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Your guide to classical music online
Working in a record store (remember those?) you could learn about some intriguing couplings of taste–some more, some less obvious. Hard rock and romantic music
John Adams’ Harmonielehre has achieved near-standard repertoire status, and given that it premiered more than three decades ago in 1985, it can hardly be considered
This remarkable four-movement, 48-minute work for solo violin, orchestra, and cimbalom (a hammered dulcimer) packs quite a wallop. Composer John Adams explains that he was
It appears that this recording was issued a few years ago, but for whatever reason we just received it, and it’s terrific. American mezzo-soprano Sasha
Simon Rattle’s years in Birmingham constituted a phenomenon, no doubt
John Adams’ Violin Concerto is a fine work, and Chad Hoopes plays it very well, with a big tone and confident intonation. The central passacaglia
You have no time to settle in and get comfortable.
My colleague Victor Carr Jr’s succinct and vivid description of John Adams’ 1984 Harmonielehre (type John Adams in Search Reviews) provides an excellent introduction to
As classical music “concept” albums go, this is one of the more successful. Robert Spano has assembled a program of 20th- and 21st-century works that
John Adams’ City Noir was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and premiered by Gustavo Dudamel in his debut concert as the orchestra’s music director
