Jan 09, 2023
Old friends, by Rossini and Beethoven
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On a concert of the New York Philharmonic.
On a concert of the New York Philharmonic.
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?).