Ahn Trio, Lullaby for My Favorite InsomniacSisters Angella, Lucia, and Maria continue to modernize and reinvent the standard piano-trio repertoire and structure. Their latest release, Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac, includes several tracks that build on the music of fellow Julliard-graduate and award-winning composer Kenji Bunch. Watch the Ahn Trio performance live in Istanbul.
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Hilary Hahn: Violin ConcertosIn another original pairing, violinist Hilary Hahn brings together the familiar, highly commercial, and long-awaited recording of the famous Sibelius Violin Concerto with the rarely performed Violin Concerto by Arnold Schoenberg. Hahn brings out the romantic qualities of Schoenberg's Concerto--known as one of the most difficult pieces in the violin repertoire--showing why it makes an ideal coupling with the Sibelius. Watch a video of Hilary Hahn discussing these two pieces.
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End Notes . The New Yorker , May 5, 2008. This is syndicated from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise . read more
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The Met does La Fille du RegimentOpening to rave reviews, the Metropolitan Opera's production of Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Florez, is now available on DVD through Virgin Classics. ›Get La Fille du Regiment on DVD William Kapell reDISCOVEREDDiscover William Kapell reDISCOVERED, featuring final and never released before live recordings and five works new to the Kapell discography.
Classic Reissues: Maria Callas In case there was a moment in your life when your suspected that Maria Callas was not a driving force in opera in the last half of this century, pick up this box set. ›More Maria Callas reissues Essential Classical Composers
We came, we fought, we harangued. But at last, in a labor of love, sweat, and tears, we narrowed the entire classical canon down to the most indispensable composers of all time. Among other things, it was also a shared musical experience par excellence. Love it or leave it, here's what we came up with:
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