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.
Department: “Music”
Music June 2019
New York chronicle
On Thomas Larcher and the New York Philharmonic; Michael Tilson Thomas, Yuja Wang, and the New World Symphony; and Katia and Marielle Labèque.
Music May 2019
New York chronicle
On Jean Rondeau; Zhao Lin at the New York Philharmonic; Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis, and Daniel Müller-Schott; Thomas Adès; and Juho Pohjonen.
Music April 2019
New York chronicle
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.
Music March 2019
New York chronicle
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.
Music February 2019
New York chronicle
On Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Traviata at the Met Opera, J’Nai Bridges with Mark Markham & Joshua Bell with the New York String Orchestra.
Music January 2019
New York chronicle
On performances by the Latvian Radio Choir, Marc-André Hamelin, the New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera.
Music December 2018
New York chronicle
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.
Music November 2018
New York chronicle
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.
Music October 2018
Salzburg chronicle
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.