Be Still My Heart: songs by Robert Gund and William Grosz; Christian Immler, Helmut Deutsch; Alpha ClassicsReviewed 29 April 2025 Two Vienna-based late-Romantic composers whose songs have disappeared from sight on a disc where the […]
Message received overnight: Esa-Pekka Salonen concluded his tenure as SF Symphony Music Director on a transcendent note, conducting Mahler’s Second Symphony with soprano Heidi Stober, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, & the SF Symphony & Chorus. The […]
From my latest essay in The Critic: The harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani tweeted the other day asking, how many handshakes to Hitler? Most respondents touched Adolf at three or four removes. I managed it in one […]