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Leon Botstein

  • Piano Protagonists – a triumph for Orion Weiss

    Jul 7th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Bridge Records, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Frederic Chopin, Leon Botstein, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Orion Weiss, The Orchestra Now

    Pianist Orion Weiss assembled this program around a theme – the composer responding to a specific source of inspiration with a virtuoso composition. It’s an interesting idea, and it yielded an album that virtually spans the Romantic Period. The earliest work is Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” by Frederic Chopin. And the inspiration […]

  • “Buried Alive” unearths Roaring 20s classics

    Oct 26th, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Arthur Honegger, Bridge Records, CD Review, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Dmitri Mtropoulous, Leon Botstein, Michael Nagy, Orchestral music, Othmar Schoeck, The Orchestra Now

    This release presents three works from the late 1920s. It was a time of reinvention. The First World War swept away the conventions of the Edwardian Age. Composers (and other artists) developed new forms of expression, that incorporated various elements of prewar aesthetics. Arthur Honegger, Othmar Schoeck, and Dmitri Mtropoulous were among them — each […]

  • Paul Hindemith – The Long Christmas Dinner

    Nov 30th, 2015 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: American Symphony Orchestra, Bridge Records, Camille Zamora, Catherine Martin, CD Review, contemporary classical music, Glenn Seven Allen, Jarrett Ott, Josh Quinn, kathryn Guthrie, Leon Botstein, Opera, Paul Hindemith, Sara Murphy, Scott Murphee, Thornton Wilder

    In an ideal world, Hindemith’s 1961 on-act opera “The Long Christmas Dinner” would be be a perennial holiday favorite, alongside Menotti’s 1951 “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” Both operas use a deceptively simple tonal language, making the music sound accessible without being cliche or trite. And both offer fresh takes on traditional holiday narratives. “Amahl” […]

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