Lloyd Schwartz

Lloyd Schwartz is the classical music critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

In addition to his role on Fresh Air, Schwartz is the classical music editor of The Boston Phoenix. He is the co-editor of the Library of the America's Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters. He is also the author of three volumes of poems: These People, Goodnight, Gracie and Cairo Traffic. He's the editor of the centennial edition of Elizabeth Bishop's Prose, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2011.

In 1994, Schwartz won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Stunned Silence, Then A Standing Ovation For 'Let Me Tell You'

By • Aug 22, 2016
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Met's 'Unfinished' Exhibit Offers A Glimpse Of The Artistic Mind At Work

By • Jul 19, 2016
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'No Orpheus' Revisits The Dreams And Passions Of An Aging Mother

By • Mar 21, 2016
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New Recording Revives Ravel's 'L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges'

By • Feb 17, 2016
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Revisiting Mary Martin's Lighter-Than-Air Exuberance In NBC's 1955 'Peter Pan' Live

By • Dec 22, 2015
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New Complete Recording Restores A Forgotten Trojan War Musical

By • Sep 24, 2015
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Rediscovering The Thrill Of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet

By • Jul 24, 2015
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Revisiting The Crystal Clarity Created By The 'Decca Sound' Revolution

By • May 26, 2015
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Brooklyn Rider Blurs Classical Boundaries On 'Almanac'

By • Apr 29, 2015

Some 30 years ago, the Kronos Quartet created a sensation by releasing an album of chamber music that included an arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Now Brooklyn Rider, another gifted string quartet, is again blurring the boundaries between classical and more popular kinds of chamber music. Fresh Air classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says he admires that blur.

Remastering 78s: A Company Brings Clarity To Pianist Artur Schnabel's Works

By • Mar 17, 2015
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Schneider Quartet's Haydn Recordings Reissued

By • Feb 12, 2015

Among the best loved recordings from the 1950s were 15 LPs of Haydn string quartets played by the Schneider Quartet. They originally appeared on the Haydn Society label, but were never reissued on CD until now. Fresh Air classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review.

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Spanish Artist Francisco Goya On Display In Boston: An Extraordinary Exhibit

By • Dec 8, 2014
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'Merry Widow' Operetta: Stage Versus Screen

By • Oct 31, 2014
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With Both Farce And Feeling, Currentzis' 'Figaro' Succeeds Magnificently

By • Aug 19, 2014

There are many recordings of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. Do we need another? In the case of this new recording led by the young Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis, Fresh Air classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz says, "Absolutely."

Every Composer Needs A Great Storyteller

By • Jul 16, 2014

The legendary German conductor Otto Klemperer was one of the most profound musicians of the 20th Century. In the 1960s, nearing the end of his career, he overcame many physical handicaps to create an astonishing body of recorded classical music. EMI has just reissued a broad spectrum of his recordings, including a box set of one of the composers he's most associated with: Gustav Mahler. Fresh Air classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has a review of Mahler: Symphonies 2, 4, 7 & 9 / Das Lied von der Erde.

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