All The Right NotesWhat a year 2022 has been for classical music. I’ve gone AWOL over the past half year to relocate and focus on my burgeoning research career, but as the year wraps up I thought it would be fruitful to take a look at four recordings released or reissued this year that have given me particular joy.Continue reading2022’s Fab Four
These two live recordings of John Williams conducting the Vienna and Berlin philharmonics were hotly anticipated, and for good reason. Not only were these concerts the débuts of the world’s most famous film composer in the two musical metropolises respectively (and in Europe generally), the recordings were also documents of the rare forays of these two august orchestras into film music. Continue readingJohn Williams: Vienna vs. Berlin
