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 ...

Concerts by the Orchestra of Madrid’s Teatro Real are becoming regular events in New York. The orchestra’s appearance on Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall marked its third performance here since 2022.

In a program that swung from the Continental Divide to the Nile in a single bound, the Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrated its 20 th anniversary Sunday night with a high-altitude performance in ...

Gustavo Dudamel conducted the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee For the past four seasons, the New York Philharmonic has been in a ...

Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, which opened Friday night as the final production of this season, has a short but notable history at the Metropolitan Opera. Its premiere house performances were ...

Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera There is a divide in John Adams’ opera career that’s not marked by ...

If opera casting were a competitive sport, there would have been something unfair about the new singers the Metropolitan Opera put in front of the audience Saturday night in Le Nozze di Figaro. This ...

One Response to “Creative staging makes for fresh Mozart, Bartók with Fischer and Philharmonic” Posted Apr 27, 2025 at 8:18 am by DorothyT A woodwind musician RAVED about the new staging after last ...

Asiya Korepanova performed Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto with Karén Hakobyan conducing Pegasus: The Orchestra Saturday night at Merkin Hall. Photo: Emma Kazaryan On Saturday evening, Pegasus: The ...

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 ...