Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk are the latest in a line of star soloists who formed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Karol Mossakowski performed Tuesday evening at The Brick Presbyterian Church. Photo: Marie Rolland There are few visceral musical delights greater than an organ recital with its extraordinary display ...

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 ...

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 ...

One Response to “Abdrazakov’s delightful Bey lifts Met’s rough-edged Rossini” Posted Oct 16, 2016 at 4:42 pm by CastaDiva Gone were the hairy chests by the time I went to this last night. But I was ...

Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang performed violin sonatas by Bach, Busoni and Shostakovich Thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Stephanie Berger Postponed from the 2019-2020 season, violinist ...

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 ...