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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Brahms Listen as Carlos Santana, Branford Marsalis and others pick their favorites of the moody master of 19th-century music. Credit...Angie Wang April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the music of Johannes Brahms (1833-97), master of stirring symphonic exclamations and moody piano solos. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your favorites in the comments. ◆ ◆ ◆ Isata Kanneh-Mason, pianist The beginning of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is one of my favorite concerto openings. It’s got dra...

Joshua Kosman March 2, 2021Updated: March 2, 2021, 6:32 pm Composer David Del Tredici (left) with soprano Barbara Hendricks and conductor Seiji Ozawa during rehearsals for “Child Alice.” Photo: Chronicle file photo One night in 1983, I went to an orchestral concert with a couple of composer friends. The headline piece on the program was a recent work by an increasingly prominent living composer, and we didn’t care for it at all. So we responded in the way the situation seemed to call for. We booed — loudly and lustily, making sure the entire hall registered our displeasur...

€180million facelift for WW1 bombarded French basilica The Connexion uses necessary cookies to help us provide you with a better user experience. By continuing to use this website, you accept our use of cookies. Accept €180million facelift for WW1 bombarded French basilica Notre-Dame de Brebières basilica in the Somme was hit by 2,000 bombs but its golden statue held true to 'prophecies' not to fall until the war ended 2 March 2021 The Basilica remains an important pilgrimage site and is visited by 60,000 people every year, not counting congregations at Mass.By Samantha David Notre-Dame ...

Ralph Moore | 10/01/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "I have never been fully convinced of the necessity of translating operas and performing them English, especially if the original is in French, which, owing to its stress patterns and vowels, is a particularly intractable and problematic language both to fit successfully to music and even more so to translate into English. I do speak French, but even if I didn't I would prefer to have a libretto to hand and hear "Oui, c'est elle; c'est la deesse" launching the famous tune in the duet rather than "Yes, a goddess; truly a goddess" (here without the ...

(5 out of 5 stars) "I was in Avery Fisher hall when this CD was recorded. I had never heard this work before, but from the first note, I was transfixed by the music. The hall could have burned to the ground around me and I would not have noticed. Apart from a short pause between the first and second movements, the piece was performed continuously. For me, it was the most intense musical experience of a lifetime. Even though I had been attending concerts for years, I had never realized that music could be like this. This CD is a precise rendition of that performance. Every time I play it...