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Remaking a Rug Concert: Boulez at 100

February 20, 2025 Christian Carey

Sound On: A Tribute to Boulez The New York Philharmonic, Conducted by David Robertson Jane McIntyre, Soprano David Geffen Hall, January 25, 2025 By Christian Carey – Sequenza 21 NEW…

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Compelling and Visceral: “In a Grove” and Arooj Aftab at Prototype

January 23, 2025 Gail Wein

PROTOTYPE – OPERA | THEATRE | NOW defines itself as a “festival of visionary opera-theatre and music-theatre works”. Its presentation of In a Grove (January 16 – 19, 2025) was…

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Winterreise on DG (CD Review)

November 21, 2024 Christian Carey

Franz Schubert – Winterreise André Schuen, baritone and Daniel Heide, piano Deutsche Grammophon Winterreise is the third recording of Schubert’s cycles/song sets (Schwanengesang isn’t a cycle – it has multiple…

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Hannigan and Chamayou Perform Messiaen (CD Review)

July 19, 2024 Christian Carey

Messiaen Barbara Hannigan, soprano Bertrand Chamayou, piano Charles Sy, tenor; Vilde Frang, violin Alpha (ALPHA1033, 2024) Soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan is an extraordinarily talented and versatile performer. Bertrand Chamayou…

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“Angel Island” by Huang Ruo at the Prototype Festival

January 14, 2024 Gail Wein

The special sauce that has made Prototype, the annual opera/theater festival, a success for over a decade is a straightforward formula: socially relevant, edgy vocal works that are high on…

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What of Words and What of Song – Juliet Fraser on Neos (CD Review)

December 3, 2023 Christian Carey

What of Words and What of Song Juliet Fraser, vocalist With Mikael Rudolfsson, trombone, Helen Bledsoe, bass flute, and Uli Fussenegger, double bass NEOS Music Soprano Juliet Fraser is one…

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Annika Socolofsky on New Amsterdam (CD Review)

June 23, 2023 Christian Carey

Annika Socolofsky Don’t Say a Word Latitude 49 New Amsterdam Records “This unapologetic profession of love and vulnerability is something I have felt denied all my life. And it’s time…