The Emerson Quartet has been one of the world’s renowned chamber ensembles for some forty years. Aurally, it established itself from the beginning with a hard, driving performance style that refreshed classics grown staid with [ Read Article ]
I’d have given one big chaw of tobacco to have been present when Beethoven’s Rasumovsky Quartets got their first hearing. A contemporary reviewer described them thusly: “The composition is profound [and] the construction excellent, but [ Read Article ]
It’s time, after 115 years, to retire the Nobel Prize. This year’s award in literature proves it. Yes, the Swedish Academy gives out Nobels in a bunch of fields, including the hard sciences and the [ Read Article ]
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society brought its season to a close with the Aizuri Quartet making its debut in the series with a pair of Russian piano quintets, one well-known and one obscure. The Philadelphia [ Read Article ]
Why, asks the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Peter Dobrin, should anyone do La Traviata after Maria Callas? The simple answer is that great dramatic and vocal art demands to be done again and again in each generation, [ Read Article ]
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