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Originality, whether it’s embodied in a recently composed work or is presented as a new way of looking at and/or programming older pieces, is a
Although his reputation was long ago surpassed by brother Franz Joseph, Johann Michael Haydn was a renowned and influential composer in his own right. Although
Though there’s no mention of this in the notes, violinist Mark Lubotsky has been around for quite awhile and hardly can be described as a
Midori’s Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2 hails from early in her performing career when the very fact that the teenage violinist met the work’s daunting
Leonard Bernstein’s performance of Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony has always been one of the best, a brilliantly played, effervescent romp through the score with a particularly
You don’t listen to Cecil Taylor (my favorite living pianist) as much as experience him. More often than not he begins one of his extended
Martha Argerich purports to avoid the soloist’s limelight in order to focus on the collaborative give and take of concerto playing and chamber music partnerships.
Jacques Offenbach wrote some of the most effervescent and memorable dance melodies in history, tunes an audience can sing while coming out of the theater
Wieniawski is one of those Romantic composers beloved of violinists and tolerated by everyone else. Judging from the number of performances and recordings, his music’s
As Brahms Symphony cycles go, this one’s a bit of a dud. It begins pretty well, with Colin Davis leading a taut and energetic account
