Batiste re-imagines Beethoven compositions in his new album. It's "not that the original wasn't great and transcendent..." he says. "But there's also a lot of things since then that have happened." ...
The former piece was the Piano Concerto No ... I was reminded of Bronfman’s playing—and others’ playing—of the Adagio in Brahms’s D-minor concerto. Also, the music was Schubertian, which is an odd ...
Image Batiste says Beethoven’s music is “so very African, filled with polyrhythms, in two-meter and three-meter at once all the time.” What pieces do you associate with your early days as a ...
The first of those concerts, he explained, was to include Beethoven's song cycle "An die ferne Geliebte" (To the Distant Beloved) with McGrann on piano and tenor Michael Burgo, former head of music at ...
In the first of two performances at Linda Ronstadt Music ... Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. 3, one of four overtures he composed for his lone opera “Fidelio.” The highlight of the ...