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James Penrose

James F. Penrose writes about music for The New Criterion.

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Blanning's castle (Books) , February 2009, 71
A review of The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art by Tim Blanning.

Mozart's Linnaeus (Features) , October 2007, 16
On Ludwig Alois Friedrich von Köchel, compiler of the Köchelverzeichnis.

"Cellini" at the MET (Music) , February 2004, 59

Opera note (Music) , March 2003, 57
James F. Penrose on Les Troyens, by Hector Berlioz.

Inventing Claude Debussy (Features) , June 2002, 41

Emmanuel Chabrier & French musical tradition (Features) , January 2001, 29
A consideration of the composer & his effect on post-Wagnerian French music.

Successes just missed: the career of Hector Berloiz (Features) , October 2000, 29

Concert note (Music) , January 1999, 58
On a performance of the Cuban pianist Juana Zayas, at Seton Hall University, New Jersey

Concert note (Music) , January 1998, 48

Kurt Masur conducts Brahms (Music) , December 1997, 50

Master of decadence (Music) , June 1997, 58
On Wagner's Ring at the Metropolitan Opera

Harnoncourt conducts Beethoven (Music) , January 1997, 50
On Nikolaus Harnoncourt & the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at Carnegie Hall, New York

New performances of Schumann (Music) , May 1996, 52

Two extraordinary pianists (Music) , February 1996, 56

New York obbligato (Books) , January 1996, 69
On Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong by Vera Brodsky Lawrence.

Pollini plays Beethoven (Music) , December 1995, 52
On Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall.

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