Maurizio Pollini’s Final Recording, Made With His Son
Maurizio Pollini didn’t think his farewell on disc would be an album of music by Schubert with his son, Daniele. Now, it serves as an emotional coda.
Posted inBruckner, Anton Classical Music Honeck, Manfred Hrusa, Jakub Nezet-Seguin, Yannick Poschner, Markus Stutzmann, Nathalie Welser-Most, Franz
At 200, Bruckner Is More Popular Than Ever. Why?
Seven conductors share what it’s like to lead Anton Bruckner’s monumental symphonies, and why they resonate today.
Posted inChopin, Frederic Classical Music Hough, Stephen Lang Lang Manuscripts Morgan Library & Museum
Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years
An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here.
Posted inBooks and Literature Classical Music Fleming, Renee I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine (Book) Levitin, Daniel J Music Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness (Book) Oppert, Claire The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing (Book) Writing and Writers
Three New Books Make the Case for Music as Medicine
Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.