Posted on June 28, 2009 by thebrierpatch
While many musicians offer differing views on the interpretations of Brahms’ works, most seem to advocate performances that passionately and clearly communicate the balance between his backward looking classicism and his forward looking harmonic and structural innovations. Brahms music confounds interpreters with his supreme mastery of all the structural components of music and how he [...]
Filed under: Concert Reviews, Disc Reviews, Music, Performances, Thoughts | Tagged: James Levine; Boston Symphony; Brahms; Requiem | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 23, 2008 by thebrierpatch
In my opinion, the future of music will have more in common with the music of Stravinsky and Debussy than with Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Esa-Pekka Salonen, in a DVD, made a similar assertion and after much thought, I agree. While the influence of the Second Viennese School cannot be denied, I do see a [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by thebrierpatch
The market is currently flooded with many recordings of the Tchaikovsky concerto. Recent recordings, such as Joshua Bell’s with Michael Tilson Thomas and the Berlin Philharmonic or Julia Fischer’s with Yakov Kreizberg and the Russian National Orchestra, have received rave reviews from critics and fans alike. Perhaps under such circumstances, Gil Shaham’s latest traversal [...]
Filed under: Disc Reviews | Tagged: Berlin Philharmonic, Gil Shaham, Joshua Bell, Julia Fischer, Lan Shui, Michael Tilson Thomas, MTT, SingaporeSymphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky, The Buterfly Lovers, Violin | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 16, 2008 by thebrierpatch
1. Neruda Songs: (Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Boston Symphony Orchestra, James Levine)
2. Brahms: Complete Works for Violin and Piano (Nikolaj Znaider and Yefim Bronfman)
3. Brahms: String Quartets, Piano Quintet (Emerson Quartet, Leon Fleisher)
4. Chen/He: The Butterfly Lovers Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Gil Shaham, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui)
5. Beethoven: Violin Concerto, Kreutzer Sonata (Vadim Repin, [...]
Filed under: Disc Reviews | Tagged: Berliner Philharmoniker, Boston Symphony, Emerson Quartet, Gil Shaham, Hilary Hahn, James Levine, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Nikolaj Znaider, Seiji Ozawa, Yefim Bronfman | Leave a Comment »
