Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 on Tuesday night. File photo: Chris Lee Concert experiences at a place like Carnegie Hall, where artists come in ...
Ailyn Pérez in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Now in its 20th season, Anthony Minghella’s 2006 production of Madama Butterfly still retains its ...
Séguin, leading this work for the first time, and lastly Sharon’s staging, which was hit or miss (mostly the latter) all night. The star of the night was Davidsen as Isolde. She delivered a stellar, ...
This is, quite simply, one of the finest song cycles in classical music, an equal to the famous ones from Schumann, Schubert, and other European composers. This is also a great American work, with ...
Clarice Assad’s NEXUS, which received its New York premiere in the Takács Quartet’s concert Wednesday night in Carnegie’s ...
Minyoung Rho, a superbly gifted pianist, introduced herself to New York audiences Monday night with an almost wholly successful recital in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. Although the event wasn’t ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Budapest Festival Orchestra musicians under Ivan Fischer performed Arvo Pärt’s Summa to open Friday night’s concert at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee “Sing it,” says the teacher to the budding ...
Isabel Leonard performed music of Barber and Bernstein with the Met Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Jennifer Taylor This year being the 250th anniversary of ...