New York Classical Review2d
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 Review2d
‘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 Review6d
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
New cast, conductor put focus on the music in Met’s cowboy “Carmen”
Aigul Akhmetshina brought a beguiling youth and lyricism to the title role when the production opened last New Year’s Eve.
New York Classical Review6d
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 ...
New York Classical Review12d
Dudamel takes the reins for Philharmonic’s mixed “Spanish” program
The thematic unity was less than met the eye; Ravel was French, inspired by Spain, and Ginastera was Argentinian.
New York Classical Review16d
Ax’s artistry illuminates familiar Beethoven, rare Schoenberg
There has been little, though, of that era talking to an earlier time, from when the foundation of Weimar music came. Pianist ...
New York Classical Review14d
Spectacular visuals make for a scenic feast in Met’s “El Niño”
J’Nai Bridges and Julia Bullock (with Siman Chung, Key’mon W. Murrah, and Eric Jurenas) in John Adams’ El Niño at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera John Adams’s El Niño arrived ...