Monthly Archives: January 2013

Tokyo String Quartet Play Bartók’s String Quartets 4 and 5 reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

Bartok used folk music to find his own voice as a composer of classical music. He roamed the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East to rediscover models of what is music to our ears, much in the same spirit … Continue reading

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TSO’s Mozart@257 Festival Opening Concert reviewed by Stanley Fefferman

To put COC conductor Johannes Debus’ TSO conducting debut with an all Mozart program in context, I reflected on the qualities of a few conductors of Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 (Haffner). Karl Bohm leading the Berlin Philharmonic makes vivid the … Continue reading

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