From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Comparisons in music are unfair. An ephemeral art cannot be measured and pinned, like a butterfly, to the page without risking mortal damage. Nevertheless, human beings possess critical faculties and spend much of their lives assessing whether A is preferable to B. Not necessarily better, just more apt to present circumstances.
I offer these caveats because I have been listening to Dvorak orchestral works from very different sources…
Read on here.
And here.
En francais ici.
Pictured: Dvorak in America.
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.jpg?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Vivid engagement, vigorous articulation & imaginative programming: The English Concert at Wigmore Hall")
-5.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "Cross-cultural cross currents: Jasdeep Singh Degun with Fantasia Orchestra in Terry Riley's iconic In C performed by string orchestra, piano, sitar and tabla at Smith Square Hall")
