music + life
Me Time
A guitar virtuoso records music written just for him.
The Itenerant Eater
Hilary Hahn shares a recipe and culinary lessons gleaned from life on tour.
The Eclectic
Violinist Daniel Hope has a diverse palate.
discovery
Condoning Dualism
Many of today’s pianists are equally comfortable in classical and jazz idioms.
recommended
Modern Americans from Sinfonia Varsovia; Monteverdi à L’Arpeggiata; Budapest Festival Orchestra has the Mahler Fourth; Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and cellist Johannes Moser in a Saint-Saëns marathon; Philharmonia Hungarica brings us Haydn’s Symphonies; pianist Alexandre Tharaud is all over Satie; harpist Yolanda Kondonassis comes up for Air; and Dallas Wind Symphony offers sonorous Percy Grainger.
Back In the USSR
Earbuds You Can Believe In
remembering
The Second Concert
It’s not always where you play, it’s who you reach
