Tag: Ludwig van Beethoven

This is our final New In Music column for 2023. I hope you’ve enjoyed these previews of the best new releases each week. So let’s get...

Inon Barnatan's "Rachmaninoff Reflections" tops this weeks list

"I think there may be no greater compliment than having this opera, this music, get people excited about reading Mary Shelley's novel."

"These works have changed me. I think it's allowed me to show more of my humanity."

"The inherent understanding of genius, stifled genius, unrecognized genius, not given the support and the nourishment that it deserves and having to find its own way. I understand that completely."

"There's always an idea of streaming against the mainstream. From there you find your own identity, you find your own truth, your find your own individuality. That's always something that consciously or unconsciously was something that was always a part of my makeup. "

"The most enjoyable thing about what we do is we get to spend time investigating music often that has so many layers and so much to investigate."

"I always assumed that opera was a world in a space that I shouldn't go into, which I shouldn't even bother."

"I don't think it's going to be better than John Coltrane, frankly. My generation, we're not going to quite get to what that is. So what we have to do is figure out things to add to it, to make something a little different."

"There is not an inherent gorgeousness to classical music itself. We find it gorgeous because we find ourselves represented in it. We have not been successful at making it relevant for everybody."