
Federico Colli’s affetuoso approach to Scarlatti frequently slips into mannerism, […]
Having just heard Daniele Gatti’s horrendous Debussy disc with the
Can French orchestras still play French music? Not on evidence
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Well, it had to happen. If the UConn women’s basketball
Oh boy, here we go again. Vänskä has turned the
Are these people insane? Before turning to the performances in
This is a remarkably generous, perfectly dreadful program: eighty-six minutes
I had a feeling we were in trouble when the 12 soloists appeared on stage. Director/choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker decided that each character in
There’s nothing remotely “Impromptu” about Tzimon Barto’s Schubert Impromptus, where nearly every phrase is vulgarly over-articulated, over-stressed, dynamically exaggerated, and underlined in multi-colored ink, as