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Orion Quartet bids farewell with polished, cool Schubert, Beethoven – Apr 03, 2024

What is your ideal of what a string quartet should sound […]

Narucki, Macomber tease and dazzle in Kafkaesque Kurtág – Mar 31, 2024

Ever since its composition in the mid-1980s, Kafka Fragments, György Kurtág’s […]

Azrieli Prize winners mix Biblical depths with Canadian birdsong – Mar 29, 2024

A fresh breeze from up North blew through Alice Tully Hall […]

Botstein, ASO and a cast of hundreds scale Schoenberg’s massive “Gurre-Lieder” – Mar 23, 2024

Did Romanticism in music collapse of its own weight?  Some think […]

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 […]

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