Music September 2019
New York chronicle
On offerings from the Mostly Mozart Festival: The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Violin Concerto, a piano recital, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
On offerings from the Mostly Mozart Festival: The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Violin Concerto, a piano recital, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
On Thomas Larcher and the New York Philharmonic; Michael Tilson Thomas, Yuja Wang, and the New World Symphony; and Katia and Marielle Labèque.
On Jean Rondeau; Zhao Lin at the New York Philharmonic; Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis, and Daniel Müller-Schott; Thomas Adès; and Juho Pohjonen.
On Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher and the New York Philharmonic, Igudesman & Joo, and Falstaff and The Daughter of the Regiment at the Metropolitan Opera.
On Elegy and Fire in my mouth at the New York Philharmonic; Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy, and Seong-Jin Cho at Carnegie Hall; and Carmen at the Met Opera.
On Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Traviata at the Met Opera, J’Nai Bridges with Mark Markham & Joshua Bell with the New York String Orchestra.
On performances by the Latvian Radio Choir, Marc-André Hamelin, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera.
On Nico Muhly’s Marnie and Puccini’s Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, and, at Carnegie Hall, the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, the violinist Maxim Vengerov in recital, and the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.
On opening nights at the New York Philharmonic; Samson and Delilah, La bohème, and Aida at the Metropolitan Opera; Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony; Jonas Kaufmann and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; and Daniel Hyde at Saint Thomas Church’s new organ.
On performances at the Salzburg Festival, including the conductor Teodor Currentzis with musicAeterna, the violinist Albena Danailova with other members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the pianist Yuja Wang and the percussionist Martin Grubinger, the pianist Grigory Sokolov, the operas L’incoronazione di Poppea and Salome, and the conductor Herbert Blomstedt with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.