Richard Ginell
Contributing Music Critic at Los Angeles Times
West Coast Regional Editor at Classical Voice North America
Music critic, journalist, keyboardist, have laptop will travel.
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sfcv.org | Richard Ginell
The ever-prolific trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis often thinks big when he writes for orchestras, seemingly subscribing to Gustav Mahler’s credo that a symphony should embrace the entire world. And Jader Bignamini, music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra since 2020, thinks likewise. In restarting the DSO’s recording agenda, Bignamini is leading off with one of Marsalis’s mammoth concoctions, the Blues Symphony (Pentatone).
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sfcv.org | Richard Ginell
From the headliners, it looked as if The Soraya had pulled off another major coup on Sunday night, April 6. The performing arts center at CSU Northridge got trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard to bring in two category-jumping groups, his E-Collective jazz quintet and the Turtle Island String Quartet, to perform newly arranged excerpts from his two operas, Champion (2013) and Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2019).
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sfcv.org | Richard Ginell
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the onetime Austrian boy wonder who became one of the most influential composers of American film scores, wanted his legacy to be more than that. After leaving Warner Bros. in 1947, he spent the remaining decade of his life composing concert music, the most imposing piece being the Symphony in F-Sharp Major, from 1952.
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sfcv.org | Peter Feher |Richard Ginell
A champion of contemporary music and a fixture on the Southern California scene for decades, pianist Gloria Cheng is expanding her horizons further with an enterprising new release, Root Progressions (Biophilia Records). Cheng commissioned six jazz-rooted composers to write pieces for her in contemporary classical idioms, wanting to see what would come out of their cross-pollinating imaginations.
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classicalvoiceamerica.org | Richard Ginell
Ferruccio Busoni and His Muses. Jiayan Sun (piano), Bridge 9610. Total Time: 70:01DIGITAL REVIEW — When I think of Ferruccio Busoni, the city of Trieste comes to mind. Trieste is kind of a no-man’s-land, perched way off the northeastern edge of modern-day Italy, a place where the people speak Italian, the architecture is predominantly Austrian, and the landscape is distinctly Balkan.
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Los Angeles Opera took a chance on Omar, a new opera in its West Coast premiere that is based on the autobiography of a Muslim scholar from Senegal who was captured and enslaved in the Carolinas. It was an astonishingly moving piece of music theatre. https://t.co/3MVSfoWNYy
The superb Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson comes up with his most far-ranging program yet, inspired by a meeting with composer György Kürtag and recorded twice on two different instruments – the usual Steinway grand and a modest upright piano. https://t.co/rxAUFGV0Ai
Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, now principal guest conductor of the CBSO, brought her British orchestra back to one of her old stomping grounds, Walt Disney Concert Hall, last week. They managed to include some choice Vaughan Williams on his 150th birthday. https://t.co/E3HPBIGIOH