Big Bach at Big Ben

Seattle's Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle Symphony, also contains a fine organ, which is the most prominent visual feature as you look at the stage of Big Ben (as opposed to the recital hall, or Little Ben). This year, the Symphony has promoted a series of three Bach organ recitals on the Watjen Concert Organ, designed by the leading American organ builder, C.B. Fisk. Joseph Adam of St. James Cathedral was the soloist, and last week Dr. Adam concluded the series before a large and rightly enthusiastic audience.

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Opera heroes on the big screen

The Metropolitan Opera's live telecasts to movie houses pass the test of two very demanding masterpieces, Britten's Peter Grimes and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

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Paris, the joy of an organist's desire

French cathedrals may be empty of all but the organist these days, but the glories of French organ music still ring out. A remarkable organist came to Seattle's St. James to prove the point.

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The Full Bach: a memorable organ recital by Joseph Adam

It would be unreasonable for anyone to expect a fuller or finer concert experience of Bach’s organ music than was provided this past Monday night by Joseph Adam, organist at St James’s Cathedral and one of Seattle’s most distinguished instrumentalists, at the Watjen organ in Benaroya Hall. Organ recitals in churches are often an hour or so in length, sufficient for one big piece at the beginning, another at the end and a handful of shorter works in between. The scope of Dr Adam’s recital, devoted entirely to Johann Sebastian Bach and promoted by the Seattle Symphony, was that of a full-scale concert of nearly two hours which allowed a generous sampling of all the main forms in which Bach wrote for the instrument.

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Bach meets Rach at the Seattle Chamber Winterfest

An unusual pairing of a Bach masterpiece and a late Rachmaninoff work for two pianos comes off well at Benaroya's Nordstrom Hall

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A new generation string quartet delivers the classics

The Belcea String Quartet, the BBC's "Young Musicians of the Year," offer a Romanian/English/Polish/French mix of players, and an inspiring program.

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Mellow summer music, with extra spice from Charles Ives

Seattle Chamber Music Society at Lakeside School presents an opening week concert with warm and relaxed playing of German masters and a notably confident and exuberant performance of a rarely heard sonata by an eccentric American composer.

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The rhapsodic side of Bach's Preludes and Fugues

Pianist Craig Sheppard delivers yet another set of Bach masterpieces.

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The Met opera, live at a mall movie theater near you

The Met's experiment in highly produced telecasts to local film screens proves surprisingly successful, especially at the bargain prices. Our reviewer reports on the first five shows, as seen in suburban Seattle and London.

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