Lloyd Schwartz

CD Set Offers A Long, Satisfying View Of The New York Philharmonic Orchestra

By Lloyd Schwartz • Mar 19, 2018

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'Maria Callas Live' Celebrates The Astonishing Range Of A Legendary Soprano

By Lloyd Schwartz • Jan 10, 2018

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Brazilian Pianist Nelson Freire Brings An Uncannily Delicate Touch To 'Brahms'

By Lloyd Schwartz • Nov 6, 2017

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Exhibit Highlights The Work Of The Late Avant-Garde Artist Florine Stettheimer

By Lloyd Schwartz • Sep 19, 2017

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Newly Released Collection Reveals Complex Artistry Of Pianist Artur Schnabel

By Lloyd Schwartz • Jul 31, 2017

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'Film' And 'Notfilm' Showcase The Collaboration Of Buster Keaton And Samuel Beckett

By Lloyd Schwartz • Jul 18, 2017

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'Shakespeare In Music & Words' Marks 400 Years Since The Bard's Death

By Lloyd Schwartz • Dec 30, 2016

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Heart-Stopping Production Numbers Make Up For A Thin Plot In 'An American In Paris'

By Lloyd Schwartz • Nov 28, 2016

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Stunned Silence, Then A Standing Ovation For 'Let Me Tell You'

By Lloyd Schwartz • Aug 22, 2016

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Met's 'Unfinished' Exhibit Offers A Glimpse Of The Artistic Mind At Work

By Lloyd Schwartz • Jul 19, 2016

'No Orpheus' Revisits The Dreams And Passions Of An Aging Mother

By Lloyd Schwartz • Mar 21, 2016

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New Recording Revives Ravel's 'L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges'

By Lloyd Schwartz • Feb 17, 2016

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Revisiting Mary Martin's Lighter-Than-Air Exuberance In NBC's 1955 'Peter Pan' Live

By Lloyd Schwartz • Dec 22, 2015

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New Complete Recording Restores A Forgotten Trojan War Musical

By Lloyd Schwartz • Sep 24, 2015

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Rediscovering The Thrill Of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet

By Lloyd Schwartz • Jul 24, 2015

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Revisiting The Crystal Clarity Created By The 'Decca Sound' Revolution

By Lloyd Schwartz • May 26, 2015

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Brooklyn Rider Blurs Classical Boundaries On 'Almanac'

By Lloyd Schwartz • Apr 29, 2015

Some 30 years ago, the Kronos Quartet created a sensation by releasing an album of chamber music that included an arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Now Brooklyn Rider, another gifted string quartet, is again blurring the boundaries between classical and more popular kinds of chamber music. Fresh Air classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says he admires that blur.

Remastering 78s: A Company Brings Clarity To Pianist Artur Schnabel's Works

By Lloyd Schwartz • Mar 17, 2015

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Schneider Quartet's Haydn Recordings Reissued

By Lloyd Schwartz • Feb 12, 2015

Among the best loved recordings from the 1950s were 15 LPs of Haydn string quartets played by the Schneider Quartet. They originally appeared on the Haydn Society label, but were never reissued on CD until now. Fresh Air classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review.

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Spanish Artist Francisco Goya On Display In Boston: An Extraordinary Exhibit

By Lloyd Schwartz • Dec 8, 2014

'Merry Widow' Operetta: Stage Versus Screen

By Lloyd Schwartz • Oct 31, 2014

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With Both Farce And Feeling, Currentzis' 'Figaro' Succeeds Magnificently

By Lloyd Schwartz • Aug 19, 2014

There are many recordings of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Do we need another? In the case of this new recording led by the young Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis, Fresh Air classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says, "Absolutely."

Every Composer Needs A Great Storyteller

By Lloyd Schwartz • Jul 16, 2014

The legendary German conductor Otto Klemperer was one of the most profound musicians of the 20^th Century. In the 1960s, nearing the end of his career, he overcame many physical handicaps to create an astonishing body of recorded classical music. EMI has just reissued a broad spectrum of his recordings, including a box set of one of the composers he's most associated with: Gustav Mahler. Fresh Air classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review of Mahler: Symphonies 2, 4, 7 & 9 / Das Lied von der Erde.

1936 'Show Boat': A Multiracial, Musical Melodrama, Now Out On DVD

By Lloyd Schwartz • Jun 5, 2014

Broadway had never seen anything like it when Show Boat arrived at the Ziegfeld Theatre in 1927. The score was unforgettable and the story tackled complex racial issues. There have been three movie versions, but the best one — James Whale's 1936 production — has only just been released on DVD.

Show Boat was the first great serious Broadway musical. Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the songs, and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., who produced it, departed from typical musical comedy material, with its chorus lines and songs showcasing star performers.

'Degenerate' Exhibit Recalls Nazi War On Modern Art

By Lloyd Schwartz • May 29, 2014

One of the most unsettling rooms in an important art exhibit at New York's Neue Galerie is a room in which numerous empty frames are hanging, with guesses about which paintings might have been in them. The paintings themselves were all lost or destroyed by the Nazis. Encouraged by Hitler, most Nazis (Joseph Goebbels was the rare exception) considered everything but the most hidebound, traditionally realistic paintings and sculptures to be "degenerate," a threat to the Aryan ideals of German culture.

A Poetry Reading: 'To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like A Death'

By Lloyd Schwartz • Mar 12, 2014

Fresh Air's classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz is also a poet. He recently published a poem about friendship and loss on Poets.org. It's titled "To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like A Death:"

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Review: Jonas Kaufmann Sings Wagner And Verdi

By Lloyd Schwartz • Dec 9, 2013

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This is FRESH AIR. At 44, the German tenor Jonas Kaufmann may be the most popular tenor of his generation and one of the most versatile. Music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews two of his recordings this year, dedicated to both Verdi and Wagner, celebrating the bicentennials of their birth.

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'Pearl Earring' Is The Crown Jewel Of The Frick's Dutch Exhibit

By Lloyd Schwartz • Dec 5, 2013

Some years ago, I wrote a poem called "Why I Love Vermeer," which ends "I've never lived in a city without a Vermeer." I could say that until 1990, when Vermeer's exquisite painting The Concert was one of the masterpieces stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It's still missing.

After Ailing, A Favorite Conductor Stages His Comeback

By Lloyd Schwartz • Nov 26, 2013

An extended ovation greeted conductor James Levine last May when he returned to performing after a two-year absence. In 2011, he resigned as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and cancelled his performances at the Metropolitan Opera. He'd been plagued by health problems, injuries and operations, and it was painful for him to move. Many of his admirers, even he himself, feared he might never conduct again.

This Opera Will Eat Your Heart Out

By Lloyd Schwartz • Oct 4, 2013

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