Most of the expressive strength in Music for New Bodies, is not in the vocal writing. There are fantastic solos for oboe and contrabassoon that urgently press against the limits of technique, and have ...

Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk are the latest in a line of star soloists who formed piano trios, dating back through such legendary ensembles as ...

Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest ...

“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...

Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...

Ursula Oppens performed with Jerome Lowenthal Saturday afternoon at Merkin Hall in a concert marking her 80th birthday. Photo: June Feng Pianist Ursula Oppens has been one of the most important voices ...

Aleksandra Kurzak and SeokJong Baek star in Puccini’s Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera David McVicar’s 2017 staging is traditional to a tee, except for the odd angle on ...

Patricia Kopatchinskaja performed Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto with Jakub Hrůša and the New York Philharmonic Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Marco Borggreve The main attraction at New ...

One Response to “Reich premiere spotlights fervent pulse of strong Philharmonic program” Posted Oct 09, 2023 at 1:11 pm by PK I want to thank Mr. Grella for his thoughtful and insightful review. I too ...

Yuja Wang performed music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ligeti and Kapustin in April at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee 1. Music of Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ligeti, Scriabin, Albéniz and Kapustin. Yuja Wang ...

Add one, take one away. That’s the background to this week’s New York Philharmonic program. The addition is not just to the orchestra but to the whole classical scene: the return of violinist Hilary ...