Sep 03, 2021
Week in review
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On Josiah Wedgwood, Beethoven’s biographers & Jacques-Louis David.
On Josiah Wedgwood, Beethoven’s biographers & Jacques-Louis David.
On four Beethoven sonatas, live & in person at New York’s Saint Thomas Church.
On Beethoven, Schubert & the Alberses.
On the pianist Igor Levit in Beethoven.
On the 2020 Salzburg Festival.
On Fernando Pessoa’s “heteronyms,” Viking history & Beethoven’s most famous portrait.
Jay Nordlinger, music critic of The New Criterion, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
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.
On Beethoven’s “violin sonatas” (fightin’ words?).
Jay Nordlinger, music critic of The New Criterion, talks music—but, more important, plays music.