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...personal writers, Reed has taken to setting down, in music, what amounts to speculative autobiography. This record has the brutal immediacy of a diary kept by someone who cannot look away from the truth. Magic and Loss, largely inspired by the death last year of Reed's friend, the superb songwriter Doc Pomus, uses spare instrumentation and simple language ("The same power that burned Hiroshima/ causing three-legged babies and death/ Shrunk to the size of a nickel/ to help him regain his breath") to stare down mortality and peek into the abyss. The title says it best. The subject...
...superb tragicomedy in which Neil Simon unflinchingly revisits the time in his childhood when he and his brother had to live as humbled supplicants among richer relatives (an episode more sentimentally imagined in his 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs). In Grandma Kurnitz (Irene Worth), Simon brilliantly plumbs the sadistic soul of stoic, rugged individualism...
...superb tragicomedy in which Neil Simon unflinchingly revisits the time in his childhood when he and his brother had to live as humbled supplicants among richer relatives (an episode more sentimentally imagined in his 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs). In Grandma Kurnitz (Irene Worth), Simon brilliantly plumbs the sadistic soul of stoic, rugged individualism...
...trouble with the queen's change of heart is that it is never made convincing dramatically. That leaves soprano Teresa Stratas, emotionally eloquent as ever and in superb voice, with very little to do beyond expressing continual anguish. While librettist Hoffman does well portraying the sexual jealousy of the Almavivas and the connubial loyalty of Figaro and Susanna, his lead couple remain elusive...
SCHOENBERG: GURRELIEDER (London). 2 vols. This quasi-oratorio is in many ways a summation and culmination of Romanticism: a magnificent music-drama about doomed love and transcendence, it echoes Wagner's Tristan and foreshadows Mahler's Eighth. Riccardo Chailly guides the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, a large chorus and superb soloists led by Susan Dunn and Siegfried Jerusalem in this infinitely expressive, dramatically gripping performance...