Lloyd Schwartz

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews VHS release of Handel's opera Julius Caesar. It's directed by the innovative Peter Sellars. Schwartz says all five hours just fly by.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new CD of the pianist performing five Beethoven concerti. It's conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new CD of the opera "Lord Byron," by American composer Virgil Thomson. The librettist is actor Jack Larson.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz on the new trends in Baroque music performance. While many musicians strive for historical accuracy, they often lack emotional depth.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews the new Elvis Costello album (yes, you read that right), a collaboration between Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. It's called "The Juliet Letters"

Our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a new collection of poems, "Goodnight, Gracie." David Lehman calls it "a moving and inventive collection, his best and most ambitious to date." Lloyd is also music editor of The Boston Phoenix and is co-director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews two recordings of works by the turn-of-the-century black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new reissue of the Budapest Quartet playing Mozart quartets and quintets.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews "X," the opera by composer Anthony Davis, about the life and times of Malcom X. It's just came out on CD. The opera is Wagnerian in scale and style, but it also has allusions to the music of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, and John Coltrane, and others.

Classical music critic reviews a new reissue of recordings by the late contralto Kathleen Ferrier, compiled into a 10-CD box set.