New York Classical Review1d
Battle returns to the Met with touching glimpses of past vocal glory
Prior to coming to the Met in 2006, Gelb was president of Sony Classical Records, the label for which Battle recorded many of ...
New York Classical Review2d
The Sebastians wrap season with a fiddle feast of Lully and friends
Early music is different in that sense; musicians from Medieval times through the 18th century thought about the future ...
New York Classical Review3d
Musical worlds coalesce and diverge in Wang’s Carnegie recital
Wang’s program finger pointed at Debussy next, in a performance of L’isle Joyeuse that adjusted the piece’s balance between ...
New York Classical Review4d
The best of Baroque times with Opera Lafayette’s tale of two Esthers
George Frideric Handel’s Esther of 1732 was his first oratorio, following a string of successes in the opera house. Far less ...
New York Classical Review3d
Hobson’s Schumann series turns to chamber works with mixed results
Take the Phantasiestücke, which Hobson played with Jun Iwasaki on violin and Ko Iwasaki on cello. Hobson started off the ...
New York Classical Review3d
LOTNY’s puppet opera serves up Haydn in plain and charming sight
The poor couple offer what hospitality they can to the gods. They also relate the loss of their son Aret and his wife ...
New York Classical Review5d
American Classical Orchestra shoots for the stars with a heavenly “Jupiter”
Berlin’s concerto served as a useful warmup. A string concerto with concertmaster Jessica Park ably playing the lead and ...
New York Classical Review5d
When violinists compose: Botstein, The Orchestra Now offer intriguing if uneven sampler
But what about violinists? Conductor and musical archaeologist Leon Botstein decided to find out, and the result was ...
New York Classical Review8d
‘The Hours’ returns to the Met with new layers of meaning
The opera is based on Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours and its Oscar-winning film adaptation. The plot intertwines the ...
New York Classical Review8d
La Morra resounds in courtly songs of love and intrigue for Music Before 1800
Barclay’s final surprise, closing out his season Sunday afternoon at Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights, was no ...
New York Classical Review12d
Echoes of Mozart reverberate through eclectic Parlando program of rarities
One such work was Mozart, a three-act comédie musicale first performed in Paris in 1925, which went on to play in London and ...
New York Classical Review12d
Salonen, cellist Kanneh-Mason strike sparks at Philharmonic
Like college freshman roommates paired up by some unseen dean, Shostakovich’s acerbic, past-Stalinist Cello Concerto No. 1 ...