The death of good music has been greatly exaggerated. Over the last year, just like in every year in recent memory, artists (and, it must be said, particularly young artists) have released so many stunning albums that keeping up with contemporary music is a practical impossibility. The following is thus an imperfect and very incomplete … Continue reading A Gertus History of Music’s Top 25* Albums of 2022
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The Breath of Life: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
I can't recall if my father owned a copy of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Our resources were limited and he most concerned himself with collecting the recordings of great pianists performing the highlights of the late Classical and Romantic repertoire. So it is entirely possible that my first brush with Beethoven's Violin Concerto came in 1983 … Continue reading The Breath of Life: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
A Gertus History of Music 