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Classical home listening: Má vlast with the Czech Phil; Andreas Scholl revisits Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater
Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic mark Smetana’s bicentenary in peerless style, while the countertenor and Accademia Bizantina contemplate the Virgin Mary• Happy birthday Bedřich Smetana! This weekend sees the launch of 2024’s Year of Czech Music, established 100 years ago to mark the composer’s centenary and held every 10 years since. For his bicentenary, the
2024-02-28 16:00:26
Conductor Semyon Bychkov offers lyrical beauty in this recording of the composer’s symphonic cycle
2023-12-20 18:01:00
As usual, there won't be a list of best or favorite recordings of 2023, because I don't make any kind of attempt to keep track of new releases - there are so many - or listen to some percentage of them. But it's been an interesting year, for sure.As you can see from the page where I link to all of my music writing, this year I wrote 25 reviews, covering 16 operas, six orchestra concerts (including one of the SFSoundBox concerts), three string quartet concerts, a concert of new and old vocal music by Trio Medieval, and Pan, a theater piece by Marcos Balter for solo flute and community chorus, brilliantly played by Claire Chase. One of those reviews covered four of Santa Fe Opera's five operas. Weirdly, my first and last reviews of the year were of works based on the story of Dido and Aeneas. In addition to the […]
2023-12-14 16:27:25
Chicago Symphony OrchestraSemyon Bychkov, conductorBenjamin Beilman, violinist Dvořák: Carnival OvertureSaint-Saëns: Violin Concerto […]
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