Reviews

The Nashville Symphony via Youtube:

After the Storm . . .

I’m not sure about you, but I’m already looking forward to putting 2020 in the rearview mirror.  We’re not even halfway through the year and we’ve weathered a catastrophic tornado and are grappling with a global pandemic . . . and we’re not out of the woods yet.  As our communities gradually reopen and we learn to adjust to what is a hopefully temporary “new normal”, we are all confronted with uncertainty and apprehension about the future.  But, even as we adjust to quarantine, social distancing, facemasks, and the elbow bump rather than the handshake – we can still takeRead More

The Nashville Symphony

An Evening of Americana and Itzhak Perlman’s Beethoven

Last Saturday night, December 11, 2021, the Nashville Symphony celebrated its 75th year with an exquisite fundraising concert featuring, in the Nashville tradition, three outstanding works of living composers pairedRead More

At the Nashville Symphony

Beethoven, Poulenc, and Stravinsky: Sounding Together at the Schermerhorn

The Nashville Symphony is back! Or rather it’s on its way back. The season may now be in full-swing, but as we all continue to navigate the realities of aRead More

Philadelphia Orchestra Release

Florence Price’s music showcased by The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Deutsche Grammophon will release an e-album on 24 September 2021 featuring two orchestral works by Florence Price (1887-1953) – Symphony No. 1 in E Minor (1932) and Symphony No. 3Read More

Nashville Opera

Cinderella on the Beach at the Cumberland

On Saturday, June 12, at the Ascend Amphitheater, as the sun set along the shores of the mighty Cumberland River, Nashville Opera held a beach party. With a completely originalRead More

A New Release from Marquis Classics

The Jasper and Jupiter Quartets: Mendelssohn/ Visconti/ Golijov

The new double string quartet album recorded by the Jasper and Jupiter string quartets is a thing of beauty. The quartets are made up of siblings, spouses, and longtime friends,Read More

New from Westerlies Records:

Theo Bleckmann and The Westerlies’ ‘This Land’

In the seemingly relentless movements of resistance and public outcry in recent years, one can be quickly overwhelmed by the moment and wonder if it will ever end. However, fromRead More

An aTonalHits release

aTonal Hits ‘Movements’ — a wonderful listen for the coming wintry nights.

aTonal Hits is a small online team of Illya Filshtinskiy & Katha Zinn, and their prolific performing output shows them to be equally comfortable with Bach or Berg. While theRead More

A New Release from Avie:

Mythologies from Anna Clyne

On October 16th, 2020 AVIE Records released Mythologies, a feature on the composer Anna Clyne. This album includes five orchestral compositions, composed over a decade, recorded live by the BBCRead More

Virtual Release

Spektral Quartet Touts New Listening Experience

This week Spektral Quartet, Chicago’s multi-grammy nominated ensemble, releases their fourth full length studio album: Experiments in Living. Taking its namesake from a quote by utilitarian philosopher John Stuart MillRead More

Nashville Symphony's release

The Second Summer Release from the Nashville Symphony

Three weeks after cancelling the 20/21 season, the Nashville Symphony released a new recording featuring the music of the Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Christopher Rouse. This recording, theRead More