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Mäkelä, Orchestre de Paris conjure a spectacular “Firebird,” visceral “Rite” – Mar 17, 2024

A hundred and eleven years ago, a ballet audience in Paris […]

Poetry is king in an intimate “Winterreise” with Padmore and Uchida – Mar 16, 2024

People new (and not so new) to classical music sometimes ask, […]

Philharmonic treks from Indian country to the Sultan’s court in Chan’s mixed debut – Mar 08, 2024

From a Native American reaching for his “Hollywood moment” to a […]

Vienna Philharmonic thrills with music from Weimar era (more or less) – Mar 03, 2024

At Carnegie Hall this concert season, “The Fall of the Weimar […]

Noisy “Émigré”casts a monochromatic sidelight on a dark corner of history – Mar 01, 2024

Shanghai in the 1930s was the fifth largest city in the […]

Kim makes an exhilarating second impression in Philharmonic debut  – Feb 23, 2024

What your mother told you is true: first impressions matter. Eun […]

On Site Opera’s clever “Coffee Cantata” provides modern shot of caffeine to Bach – Feb 15, 2024

It took some strong coffee to do it, but for a […]

A convivial evening of Czech music centered on the prolific Juraj Filas – Feb 10, 2024

The Year of Czech Music, New York edition, got under way […]

Bernstein “Serenade” charms and Strauss Alpine climb exhausts with Philharmonic – Feb 09, 2024

In 1911, Richard Strauss, by then mainly an opera composer, had […]

Pianist Abduraimov casts a wide cultural net in Carnegie recital – Jan 27, 2024

It wasn’t hard to imagine that Behzod Abduraimov, pianist from Tashkent, […]

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