Who’s the Boss?
When conductor and soloist clash, a concerto performance can turn into a contest of wills
Songs for Olly
A requiem for Knussen
Death in Antarctica
Vaughan Williams’s Seventh Symphony
Expanding the List
More essential American symphonies
American Symphonies
25 of the very best
Hardly Academic
The essential Walter Piston
Requiem for an Angel
A concerto and its nearly disastrous premiere
The Man Who Loved Proust
Reynaldo Hahn and the sounds of the beautiful age
Lilacs for Lincoln (and Kennedy and King)
Roger Sessions, part II
The Conquered Ear
Roger Sessions’s Eighth Symphony, 50 years after its premiere
