Mar 12, 2026 | Concert Soundbites, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
W. H. Auden (1907-73), author of The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue Saturday, March 7, 2026 Powell Hall at the Jack C. Taylor Music Center, North Grand Boulevard, St Louis, Missouri Just my luck. This mouth-watering concert’s live relay clashed with the...
Mar 7, 2026 | Concert Soundbites
BSO photo from Feb.28 concert Classical Radio Boston broadcasts Boston Symphony Saturday-evening subscription concerts live from Symphony Hall. Not this one it seemed, for all the searching that I did at the time, but it was recorded and is now in CRB’s archive,...
Feb 25, 2026 | Concert Soundbites
After the Fall is John Adams’s third piano concerto. It was written for Víkingur Ólafsson. It’s quite engaging. Although there are passages of calm, even etherealness, the bulk of the single movement is a virtually seamless growth to a rhythmic melee with...
Feb 20, 2026 | Concert Soundbites
Saturday, February 14, 2026 Boston Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA Glad of the chance to do concert catch-up. Luciano Berio’s arrangement of Boccherini’s ‘retreat’ piece receives a quick-paced outing, played deftly by the...
Feb 15, 2026 | Concert Soundbites, Ramblings, Vinyl
Okay, I fell asleep during Match of the Day last night – sacrilege – and my slumber also took care of live relays from Boston and Detroit. The former,...
Feb 12, 2026 | Concert Soundbites
Concert photo by Mark Allan Else Torp (soprano)Finchley Children’s Music GroupBBC SingersNational Youth VoicesBBC Symphony Orchestra “unEarth is a large-scale oratorio about the climate crisis. Written in three movements, it combines ancient stories, languages...