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Oundjian, Hadelich, and Yale Philharmonia dazzle in Britten, Berlioz, and Tower redux
While many musicians were fleeing Europe ahead of the cataclysm of World War II, Benjamin Britten was returning to the United Kingdom from a sojourn in the United States. Just before doing so in 1939, ...
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Pianist Liu goes small and big in Russian works at Carnegie
Liu’s imaginative program design was matched by poetic playing in Tchaikovsky’s miniatures and fiery and sonorous renderings of Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 4 and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 7.
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Wang sports pianist and leader hats in Jazz Age Philharmonic program
The audience at the New York Philharmonic Thursday night saw a different side of Yuja Wang—literally.
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Speedo Green makes masterful solo debut at Carnegie Hall
Ryan Speedo Green is such a consistent and enjoyable presence on the New York City classical music scene that it was amazing to realize that his Wednesday night performance in Zankel Hall was his ...
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SongStudio young artists bring light to darkness
The first half of the program, “Light in Darkness,” featured newly commissioned works by writer a.k. payne, paired with art ...
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No words but plenty of drama in Stutzmann’s “Ring” with the Philharmonic
If you like looking at pictures of Alfred Roller’s sets for Götterdāmmerung or portraits of Jean de Reszke as Siegfried or Birgit Nilsson as Brünnhilde, you would likely have enjoyed the New York ...
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Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra twine music of grief and loss by Heggie, Mahler
In the Ninth Symphony, Mahler examines death from an internal, personal view. Through the music, Mahler sees the end and ...
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Levit’s explorative Brahms provides the highlight at Carnegie
There’s a hoary cliché from rock journalism, where a guitarist is giving an interview and talks about how they dislike certain other players because they have great technique but no “feel.” While a ...
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Sequentia spins a medieval German saga for Music Before 1800
Sequentia performed “Gregorious—The Holy Sinner” Sunday at Corpus Christi Church. Early music concerts are a form of time travel. With “Gregorius—The Holy Sinner,” Music Before 1800 transported the ...