Most of the expressive strength in Music for New Bodies, is not in the vocal writing. There are fantastic solos for oboe and contrabassoon that urgently press against the limits of technique, and have ...

Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk are the latest in a line of star soloists who formed piano trios, dating back through such legendary ensembles as ...

Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...

“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...

Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...

One Response to “Reich premiere spotlights fervent pulse of strong Philharmonic program” Posted Oct 09, 2023 at 1:11 pm by PK I want to thank Mr. Grella for his thoughtful and insightful review. I too ...

Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang performed violin sonatas by Bach, Busoni and Shostakovich Thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Stephanie Berger Postponed from the 2019-2020 season, violinist ...

Patricia Kopatchinskaja performed Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto with Jakub Hrůša and the New York Philharmonic Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Marco Borggreve The main attraction at New ...

Matthew Polenzani in the title role and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus ...

Yuja Wang performed music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ligeti and Kapustin in April at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee 1. Music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ligeti, Scriabin, Albéniz and Kapustin. Yuja Wang ...

Add one, take one away. That’s the background to this week’s New York Philharmonic program. The addition is not just to the orchestra but to the whole classical scene: the return of violinist Hilary ...

Call it the Two Face concert. This week’s New York Philharmonic program, which opened Thursday night in David Geffen Hall, featured two sides of a pair of the greatest 20th century composers, ...