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The O’Connor Band, however, has produced a truly striking album of singular beauty entitled Coming Home. 

I have seldom seen a performance of greater concentration - or one so exciting.

Their performance delivered absolutely top-notch music-making, as fine as one could ever expect to hear.  

2016 has been a rather remarkable year for the Calidore String Quartet.

The Calidore String Quartet gave a discerning and absorbing concert Sunday afternoon...concentrating on simple and direct expression and never exaggerating for drama or effect.

Each year the movie industry gives out Oscars for the best performances in supporting roles. It’s too bad that there’s no similar award in chamber music. If someone would kindly fund one, I’d like to nominate Estelle Choi, the cellist of the Calidore String Quartet.

The all-male dance parody troupe is still the funniest and most sophisticated act around, and it is hard to forget yesteryear’s glittering panoply of faux assolutas with stage names like Tamara Boumdiyeva and Ida Neversayneva. But nostalgia is dangerous. So let me state categorically: In the four decades I have been following the Trocks, they have never danced better.

Liszt’s Études d’exécution transcendante are among the most technically demanding works in the piano repertoire and it is rare to hear pianists playing all twelve of the studies in one concert. 

Kirill Gerstein is evidently determined to prove his mettle as one of the great piano virtuosos of the day, and he made a strong case to be considered as such with his recital at Zankel Hall on Monday evening.

The Tunisian protest musician, who came to fame during the Arab Spring, is reclaiming her identity by pairing traditional beats with modern electronica.