Monday, October 29, 2018
Hilary Hahn supplies a disc of immaculate Bach; conductor Sakari Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic play music by Rued Langgaard to the hilt.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Andris Nelsons presided over an interpretation of Mahler's Symphony #2 that was both tightly controlled and emotionally cathartic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:48PMThursday, October 11, 2018
JoAnn Falletta’s recording of Schreker's orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven's Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Violinist Viktoria Mullova supplies one of the year’s most programmatically-cohesive and thoughtfully-executed albums.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMFriday, October 5, 2018
What wasn’t there to love about 20th-century music on a night like this? In a word, nothing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:04PMFriday, September 28, 2018
If Charlie Harmon's story jumps around a bit and reads rather like a series of diary entries, it’s at the very least engaging and, for the most part, entertaining.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:06PMMonday, September 24, 2018
There’s so much going on in the area that’s good that it’s a challenge to go wrong.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PMSunday, September 16, 2018
Two Mahler symphony entries: one is above average, the other a disappointment. Violinist Arabella Steinbacher delivers a first-rate and strongly recommended disc.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:24PMSaturday, September 15, 2018
Night Triptych is an important disc, but also an inviting one that takes you to some fresh places well worth experiencing. Also, another success for harpsichordist Justin Taylor, and a well-…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:24PMTuesday, August 28, 2018
Nearly three decades after he left us, Bernstein’s music seems to be in good hands and anything but forgotten. And his larger musical influence strongly endures.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PMA winning reminder of Sir Neville Marriner’ impressive stylistic range as a conductor, a fine recording of a much-loved and -played Richard Strauss tone poem, and a striking, powerful pre…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32AMSunday, August 26, 2018
Aspects of America, from the Oregon Symphony and its music director Carlos Kalman, is at once superbly played, astutely programmed, and aesthetically necessary.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24PMSaturday, August 25, 2018
Jonathan Nott does right by Ligeti and Herbert Blomstedt does the same for Mozart. You didn’t know that Evgeny Kissin, the piano virtuoso, was also a composer? Join the club.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AMThursday, August 23, 2018
A triumphant disc from A Far Cry, some fresh thinking from Giuseppe Sinopoli and the Israel Philharmonic, and Thomas Hampson, a great purveyor of American song, focuses on Chicago.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
Four new albums: the standouts include the finest Andris Nelsons/BSO Shostakovich collaboration to date and the Neave Trio’s wonderful new French Moments.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36PMSunday, July 15, 2018
Conductor Aapo Häkkinen explores Robert Schumann's writing for chorus;Andrew Manze caps off his three-volume Mendelssohn symphony survey with a glorious performance of the oddball Symphony …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Strong discs from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Francois-Xavier Roth and his Paris-based period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles, and the National Orchestral Institute Philh…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18AMFriday, July 13, 2018
Garth Edwin Sunderland’s new chamber adaptation of this opera's score, is, to date, the Bernstein Centennial Year’s best and most important recording.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AMThursday, July 12, 2018
Anna Shelest’s new recording of piano-and-orchestra pieces by Anton Rubinstein is one of those albums that makes you want to rethink Rubinstein’s relative neglect in the broader canon �…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Still, the moral should be to err in favor of the audacious. That’s what this world – and this art form – require.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMMonday, June 11, 2018
For a composer who hails from Finland but found his spiritual home in Southern California, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s is a singular musical voice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMSaturday, June 9, 2018
Composer Charles Villiers Stanford's best traits were formidable indeed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04AMThursday, June 7, 2018
Henry Cowell’s was an important, if now often forgotten, voice in 20th-century music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
Composer Florence Price’s lack of acceptance into the American canon is shameful.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54AMSaturday, June 2, 2018
That neglect, though, is our loss. The Altenberg-Lieder feature Alban Berg at his most direct and concise, as well as his most sumptuous.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32PMSunday, May 20, 2018
The BLO's production was one of the troupe's true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:04PMSaturday, May 19, 2018
Andrew Manze and the RLPO have turned in one of the year’s great albums: potent, lyrical, haunting, and timely.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36PMFriday, May 18, 2018
Two recommended discs: James Brawn's complete Beethoven piano sonata series continues while Simone Dinnerstein and A Far Cry execute Philip Glass’s chorale-like writing with remarkable fer…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:06PMSaturday, May 5, 2018
George Szell’s Reign is ultimately an accessible, often sociable, but sometimes perplexing fan’s history of the Orchestra and its storied music director.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Variations and fugues are the overriding themes of pianist/composer Michael Brown’s captivating new album. If you’re an Andris Nelsons fan, this Deutsche Grammophon album won’t disappo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:12PMMonday, April 30, 2018
The Birringer Duo's disc is a terrific, engaging release, The Colin Currie Group’s performance is nothing short of a powerhouse, and pianist Liza Stepanova plays with lots of character and…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:18AM 
