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November 15, 2012 There is no more reliable brand in the symphonic trade than the Cleveland Orchestra . You may not always know what to expect in the interpretation, but you know that you will get complete concentration and hair-trigger
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Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra Chamber Orchestra Plays with All Strings Tuesday, October 9, 2012 Article Tools Maestro Heiichiro Ohyama could have had William Blake in mind when planning this concert's surprising sequence: Joy and woe are woven fine
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The Artemis Quartet 's Wigmore Hall concerts over the last couple of seasons have been focused on Beethoven, dovetailing with the release of the cycle of the complete quartets that they recorded for Virgin Classics. They also played Beethoven in
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The Juilliard Quartet is one of the institutions in American music. Though two of the current lineup, viola player Samuel Rhodes and cellist Joel Krasnick, have been members since 1969 and 1974 respectively, the latest foursome only came together
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The latest in Kent Nagano's pairs of Beethoven symphonies, In the Breath of Time posits the 6th and 8th Symphonies and the "Grosse Fuge" as illustrating Beethoven's attempt to confront the dangers of the constant march of progress while
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Twisted is a term with which the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage presumably has some acquaintance, given his abrasive subjects and vernacular borrowings in major pieces like the opera Greek and the chamber orchestra work Blood on the Floor not to
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This set completes the Tokyo Quartet's Beethoven series for Harmonia Mundi. The group has recorded the cycle before, with a different first violin and cello, for RCA in the 1980s, but the basic characteristics remain the same. The Tokyo Quartet
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Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair Sage, Gateshead In a discussion preceding the performance, Thomas Zehetmair was asked if Beethoven's Grosse Fuge really requires a conductor, as the work originally developed from a string quartet. Though no mean quartet
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Abigail Lebrecht The increasing deafness that Beethoven suffered during the closing years of his life gives the masterpieces that he wrote in that period, like the late String Quartets, a mystical aura, especially for the layman for whom the art of
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And this summer, there's no shortage of interesting and provocative CD releases to choose from. Here are five recent releases that keep finding their way onto my listening queue. Dictee, Liber Novus John Zorn Tzadik Records I like Zorn's music for
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