New York Classical Review1h
Charm vies with silliness in Venetian serenades with Falk, Nuovo Aspetto
In “Dolce xe quel musetto,” Falk’s beautiful tone and sincerity painted the charms of the sweet Ninetta, further enhanced by subtle and delicate ornamentation in the reprise of the two verses. There ...
New York Classical Review1d
Brooklyn String Orchestra brings sincerity, understanding to music of Arvo Pärt
At St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights Saturday night, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn showed what it ...
New York Classical Review6d
MasterVoices’ “Blind Injustice” lifts up the wrongly convicted with eclectic music
As ably led on Monday by Ted Sperling with a 12-piece orchestra and a MasterVoices chamber chorus of 33 singers, the piece ...
New York Classical Review9d
Tao seeks but does not always find in curious, Debussy-centered recital
Conrad Tao is one of the most compelling musicians on the classical scene. A talented pianist and composer, he also has the ...
New York Classical Review3d
McGill and Ax woo, then wow, an intimate gathering at Zankel Hall
Clarinetist Anthony McGill was playing a pleasantly intimate recital Thursday night at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, when he let his accompanist play a solo. Something about “Moonlight.” ...
New York Classical Review11d
Opera Lafayette to premiere oldest known opera by black American composer
Sometimes finding a musical treasure is sheer serendipity. A librarian cleaning a cupboard in a Pennsylvania seminary ...
New York Classical Review12d
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, ...
New York Classical Review7d
Blue Heron returns to New York with fascinating Regis mass
Blue Heron performed Johannes Regis’s Missa L’Homme armé/Dum sacrum mysterium Sunday at St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church. Photo: BH The Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue Heron specializes in ...
New York Classical Review11d
Janowski makes a solid, belated Philharmonic debut
Mendelssohn’s piano concertos are not performed as often as those of his late classical and early romantic era peers, and one reason may be that they are not on the same level as the works of ...