Lloyd Schwartz

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews "Hear My Prayer: Choral Music of the English Romantics" (on the Chicago label, Cedille).

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews "A Recital of Intimate Works" (Dorian label) by pianist Andrew Rangell.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new collection of recordings made by the late pianist William Kapell who died in 1953 at the age of 31.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a re-issue of Judy Garland's songs titled "Judy" on the label 32 Records. It is a four cd-set with a video and 100 page book of photos and interviews. Also Rhino records has re-issued "Judy Garland in Hollywood."

Our classical music critic will read two of his poems written about his 94 year old mother who has Alzheimer's and in a nursing home. The poems are: "The Two Horses (A Memory)" and "He Tells His Mother What He's Working On."

Classical music critic reviews "Movie Madness," which features excerpts from the film music of Dmitri Shostakovich. (Capriccio)

Critic Lloyd Schwartz comments on his visit to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to see "Monet in the 20th Century" - the largest exhibit ever assembled of Monet's late paintings done in the last 25 years of his life. Boston is the only American city to be showing the exhibit. (It runs thru December 27th and then goes to London).

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews some reissues of music from Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess." They are: the first complete recording of Porgy and Bess, reissued in Sony's Masterworks Heritage Series, and Selections from Porgy and Bess with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, on Telarc.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz just returned from Tanglewood, where composer Elliot Carter was a guest of honor at the Festival Of Contemporary Music. Carter will be 90 on December 11, 1998, and his birthday has been celebrated all year long in recordings and performances. Schwartz has a review of the Tanglewood performance.

Russian composer Alfred Schnittke died Monday. Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reflects on the his life and legacy.