Music September 2020
Livestream chronicle
A review of recent livestreams from the Orchestra of St Luke’s, The Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Les Arts Florissants & The Boulanger Initiative.
Department: “Music”
Music June 2020
New York chronicle
On Igor Levit in Germany; Maxim Vengerov, Peter Laul & Boris Andrianov in St. Petersburg; Robert Kahn’s “America the Beautiful”; and the Met’s “at-home gala.”
Music May 2020
New York chronicle
On an all-Bach recital by Daniil Trifonov; Beethoven trios with Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Leonidas Kavakos; and livestream concerts with the New York Festival of Song, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
Music April 2020
New York chronicle
On Tread Softly by Nina C. Young, a performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto with Janine Jansen, Stride by Tania Léon, the nine Beethoven symphonies at Carnegie Hall, and a recital of personal interest.
Music March 2020
New York chronicle
On Rosa Feola in recital at the Park Avenue Armory, a new piano concerto by Esteban Benzecry, a new cello concerto by Brett Dean, and a performance of Winterreise by Peter Mattei and Lars David Nilsson.
Music February 2020
Music to our ears
On Alma Deutscher’s Carnegie Hall debut.
Music February 2020
New York chronicle
On Winterreise with Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin; a performance by the McGill/McHale Trio; and The Queen of Spades at the Metropolitan Opera.
Music January 2020
New York chronicle
On new music by James MacMillan, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Bryce Dessner; newish music by Philip Glass and Wynton Marsalis; unfamiliar music by Bizet; the conductors Riccardo Muti and Santtu-Matias Rouvali; the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; and the pianist Conrad Tao.
Music December 2019
New York chronicle
On the pianist Marc-André Hamelin; Orfeo ed Euridice at the Metropolitan Opera; the Munich Philharmonic, conducted by Valery Gergiev; and the soprano Golda Schultz.
Music November 2019
New York chronicle
On Philip Glass and Kelli O'Hara at the New York Philharmonic; Paul Jacobs and the French organ tradition; Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera; the composer Jessie Montgomery; the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall; and some recently departed musical standouts.