Jan 09, 2023
Old friends, by Rossini and Beethoven
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On a concert of the New York Philharmonic.
Topic: “Beethoven”
Sep 03, 2021
Week in review
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On Josiah Wedgwood, Beethoven’s biographers & Jacques-Louis David.
Jun 10, 2021
Absence & reunion
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On four Beethoven sonatas, live & in person at New York’s Saint Thomas Church.
Jan 08, 2021
Week in review
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On Beethoven, Schubert & the Alberses.
Sep 29, 2020
A tour through a sonata
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On the pianist Igor Levit in Beethoven.
Music October 2020
Salzburg chronicle
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On the 2020 Salzburg Festival.
Aug 07, 2020
Week in review
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On Fernando Pessoa’s “heteronyms,” Viking history & Beethoven’s most famous portrait.
May 16, 2020
Music for a While #25: Sons, daughters, and others
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Jay Nordlinger, music critic of The New Criterion, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
Music May 2020
New York chronicle
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On an all-Bach recital by Daniil Trifonov; Beethoven trios with Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Leonidas Kavakos; and livestream concerts with the New York Festival of Song, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
Apr 20, 2020
Order, order!
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On Beethoven’s “violin sonatas” (fightin’ words?).