With considerable creativity and stamina, pianist Alessio Bax plays a demanding program of Brahms, Enescu, and Bartók.
Imaginative programming choices mark the Carmel Bach Festival’s “Landscapes of the Soul” program.
The multifaceted Peter Hanson emerges as a gracious, accessible concertmaster of the Carmel band.
Carmel Bach’s new director, Paul Goodwin, leads a powerful “rethink” of Bach’s St. John Passion that won the audience over.
Young singers in American Bach Soloists’ summer academy come up against the limits of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, with varying success.
A Jennifer Higdon work infallibly delights, on this new Atlanta Symphony Orchestra CD, even without its live-concert visuals.
Pianist Jon Nakamatsu and soprano Christina Major lend their gifts to a strong program by the long-admired Midsummer Mozart Festival.
A newly unearthed Vivaldi and some other bright little firebombs distinguish La Serenissima’s new disc.
Did Hollywood success spoil Erich Korngold? Not according to a new CD of his must-hear symphony, with its lush Romanticism.
Christopher Theofanidis’ First Symphony is engaging and emotional, and will give sound systems a good workout.
