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Alisa Weilerstein: Taking it to the Bridge
Andrew Stuart meets the cellist of the hour
By Andrew Stuart, The Independent
Classical music has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks. There have been allegations of historic child abuse at Britain's specialist music schools, charges of sexual misconduct levelled...
Podcast: BBC Music Magazine’s Album of the Month
BBC Music Magazine – Recording of the Month – February 2013
In this podcast, editor Oliver Condy and reviews editor Rebecca Franks discuss the Recording of the Month in our February issue, Alisa Weilerstein's stunning disc of Cello Concertos by Elgar and Elliott Carter.
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Cellist found her own path to performing concerto
By David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer
Part protest, part lamentation for a lost era, the Elgar Cello Concerto confronts whoever plays it with a challenge beyond music: Is there any other way but Jacqueline du Pré's?The blond, charismatic British cellist owned the piece throughout...
The New Yorker Reviews Alisa’s Debut Album
Classical Notes: Aiming High
By Russell Platt
In 1972, Virgil Thomson wrote that Elliott Carter was America’s “most admired composer of learned music and the one most solidly esteemed internationally,” an appreciation that was still accurate when Carter died, last month, at the age of...