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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Stravinsky Dive into the composer who changed music history and gave Mikhail Baryshnikov “my first heady sniff of the West.” Credit.Angie Wang Aug. 4, 2021Updated 7:16 a.m. ET Now we want to convince those curious friends to love Igor Stravinsky, possibly the widest-ranging and most influential composer of the 20th century, and an inspiration for some of George Balanchine’s ballet masterpieces. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your favorites in the comments. ◆ ◆ ◆ Xian Zhang, conductor Thinking about Stravinsky, the first thing that jumps to my mind is the beginning of the second part of “The Rite of Spring” “The Sacrifice.” I’m reminded of the video that Leonard Bernstein made rehearsing it, and of its powerful use in Disney’s “Fantasia,” as dinosaurs roam the earth. It’s a quiet, tension-filled moment after all of the decibels before and after. Seeing Bernstein re ....
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Choral Music Listen to the gorgeous sound of a mass of voices: ancient, contemporary, gospel, opera, sacred, romantic. Credit.Angie Wang May 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Now we want to convince those curious friends to love choral music the gorgeous sound of a mass of voices. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your favorites in the comments. ◆ ◆ ◆ Charmaine Lee, vocalist and composer When I first heard Marcel Cellier’s compilation album “Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares,” I was struck by the choir’s vocal quality: raw and direct, with a supreme clarity and unlike anything I’d heard before. In “Kalimankou Denkou,” a powerful solo by Yanka Rupkina is wrapped in rich, cascading harmony, unfolding with organic complexity. This is perfect tonal music, where harmony and melody reinforce each other to convey deep expression. I hope it leads you down a YouTube rabbit hole in the vocal music no ....
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 drama, intensity and emotion and that’s before the piano even joins! The soloist doesn’t come in for almost four minutes while the orchestra has a long, thrilling introduction illustrating the themes of the movement. Brahms uses the full orchestra, with a lot of grandeur, so the entrance of the piano is always a beautiful surprise, coming in very lyrical and soft. ....
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Tenors Rufus Wainwright, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli and others choose opera’s most passionate, golden voices. Credit.Angie Wang March 3, 2021 Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the passionate, ringing tenor voice. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your choices in the comments. ◆ ◆ ◆ Rufus Wainwright, composer and songwriter My dad, Loudon, has never much liked opera. But when I was 13, the opera bug struck me hard, and I’m pretty sure that in an effort to better understand what I was going through, he bought a Luciano Pavarotti CD. One of the tracks was a thrilling version of “Di rigori armato seno” from Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” and I became entranced with the aria. Pavarotti’s rendition also connects me to a later, magnificent experience when, during a performance of “Rosenkavalier” I was attending at the Metropolitan Opera, Luciano magically app ....