Even the orchestral tone poems of Richard Strauss, their scores larded with tantalizing verbal hints such as “Of the Great Longing” or “Song of the Night Wanderer,” tend to slip off the analyst’s hook ...
Clarice Assad’s NEXUS, which received its New York premiere in the Takács Quartet’s concert Wednesday night in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, had the players literally in motion, circling each other onstage ...
The Vienna Philharmonic with conductor Andris Nelsons plays Kurtág’s Petite musique solennelle, Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6, 8 p.m. Saturday; and Strauss’s Also sprach ...
Auerbach’s Ludwigs Alptraum (Ludwig’s Nightmare), composed in 2007 for the International Beethoven Competition in Bonn, was a dark reflection on that composer’s two fantasy-sonatas of Op. 27, with ...
Why is this work a masterpiece? That thought must have been on some minds as Ian Niederhoffer led Parlando in Georg Friedrich Haas’ in vain at Merkin Hall on Sunday afternoon.
Lack of certainty is an underrated quality in classical music. The norm is to value repertoire performances that aren’t just technically precise but have a sense that the ideas about the music are ...
Behzod Abduraimov performed a recital at Carnegie Hall Friday night. Photo: Evgeny Eutykhov It wasn’t hard to imagine that Behzod Abduraimov, pianist from Tashkent, was bringing centuries of history ...
1. Mahler: Symphony No. 7. Gustavo Dudamel/New York Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel isn’t officially the music director of the New York Philharmonic until next season, but performances this year show ...
Daniil Trifonov performed Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Dario Acosta Listening to Daniil Trifonov’s recital in Carnegie Hall Tuesday night, one’s first thought was, this pianist is such a ...
Manfred Honeck conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Seong-Jin Cho as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Manfred ...
The title 11,000 Strings promises something grand, and indeed Georg Friedrich Haas’ piece is large-scale in physical scope, duration, and ambition. This is a piece for 50 pianos (the 11,000 strings) ...
Piotr Beczała in the title role and Sonya Yoncheva as Maddalena in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera Andrea Chénier returned to the Metropolitan ...
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