Classical music + Album reviews
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3 out of 5 stars.
Breaking Glass Ceilings: Music by Unruly Women album review – a celebration of defiant female composers
3 out of 5 stars.Pioneering women are the focus in this characterful collaboration between viola player Rose Wollman and pianist Dror Baitel -
5 out of 5 stars.David Lang has created a freewheeling concert/lecture mashup based on a 1926 Gertrude Stein lecture and ushered into being by the imperious Eighth Blackbird
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4 out of 5 stars.The group’s complete Beethoven quartet cycle – brought together now ins a single set – showcases their characteristically clear and elegant style
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4 out of 5 stars.Irish tenor Robin Tritschler presentation of songs written for Benjamin Britten’s professional and personal partner of nearly 40 years is a fine achievement
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4 out of 5 stars.
Schubert: String Quartets in G, D887 and B Flat, D112 album review – Takács take their time, this time
4 out of 5 stars.The group’s new recording of G major quartet is strikingly different from their intense 1997 recording, while the Haydnesque B flat is a model of good manners
The Turkish-born, New York-based pianist’s new album uses the influence of Satie and Glass to respond to the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria