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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-04 19:21:12
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[…] the emotional wallop of his later Hollywood scores. A Grieg-Sibelius event, all warhorses except the Sib Seventh, comes in November. Executive director Chad’s Smith first complete season schedules embraces: plentiful Ravel and Tchaikovsky, including the latter’s less-often-heard Francesca da Rimini; copious Shostakovich, to help Andris Nelsons fill out his namesake cycle; some fine Haydn and Mozart to match Beethoven, one Schubert, the charming Rossinian Sixth Symphony; one Berlioz (Waverley); one Schumann (Piano Concerto with Jonathan Biss, welcome back!); and some lesser-known Russian works, including Rachmaninoff’s striking Symphony No. 3 (his best); and a lovely ancestor, The Enchanted Lake by Anatol Liadov. Among recently composed works, Tania León is back again with a new commission; Kevin Puts, Carlos Simon, Hannah Kendall, Chen Yi, Adolphus Hailstork, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Gabriela Ortíz likewise, mostly with topical or political pieces; and it’s good that there’s at least one Boston composer represented, Michael Gandolfi, […]
2024-03-28 16:22:06
Andres/Segev/Metropolis Ensemble/Cyr(Nonesuch)These three works showcase the US composer’s distinctive and accomplished musical languageLike a number of US composers of the thirtysomething generation, Timo Andres takes the minimalism of John Adams and Philip Glass as the starting point for his eclectic musical language. But as shown by the solo piano Colorful History, which Andres himself plays as the centrepiece to this collection, his music explores a much broader musical landscape.The solo piece, a chaconne of increasing complexity, is framed by two concertos: The Blind Banister for piano from 2017 (composed for Jonathan Biss, but with Andres as the soloist here) and Upstate Obscura for cello. The piano concerto (Andres’s third for the instrument) was commissioned as part of a series inspired by Beethoven’s five examples: for Andres, the pairing was with the second piano concerto, but there’s no hint of Beethovenian pastiche or allusion in his music. Instead the work begins almost […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-25 18:18:01
Jonathan Biss reached the midpoint of his survey of Schubert’s last three piano sonatas at the ISGM yesterday. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-27 00:10:29
Jonathan Biss began his survey of Schubert’s last three piano sonatas at the ISGM’s Calderwood Hall on Sunday. The others will follow on March 24th and April 28th. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
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