Music Review: Orchestraâs Daring Mix: Bit of Bach and a Jolt of Jazz
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The Riverside Symphony and its audience took over Zankel Hall on Tuesday night for a characteristically inventive program of Baroque and jazz-oriented works.
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For the first time in nearly 20 years the Metropolitan Opera presented Verdiâs breakthrough early masterpiece in a stylistically eclectic, grimly effective and, at times, intriguingly playful production.
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The results were mixed during the American Composers Orchestraâs âCulture Shockâ concert.
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Wednesdayâs performance of two works of Mozart at Avery Fisher Hall made evident the intangible connection between the orchestraâs members and its conductor.
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Conducting the Tehran Symphony Orchestra requires some adjustments. Money is scarce. The female musicians wear headscarves. An old favorite such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 could mean criticism from conservative quarters.
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Among the great pleasures of regularly attending concerts is the occasional encounter with a performance that far surpasses expectations. The concert by the Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday did just that.
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A virtuoso musician may seem to nail every note, but actually there are tiny variations in even the most skilled performance.
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The ensemble is well tuned, reasonably together and certainly not lacking in enthusiasm. Its size was not right for the space.
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The Manhattan School of Music is trying to get out of the shadow âof that other school.â
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Andras Schiff is showing in his Carnegie Hall traversal of the sonatas is that a handful of relatively small but decisive steps lead from the Haydnesque playfulness of Beethovenâs earliest works to the grand proclamations of the mature ones.
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Radiohead's offer inspires musician, who wants classical music to reach a new audience.
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Do not look for the Viennese soul in the waltzes of Johann Strauss. Try instead the dark places of Anton Webernâs Six Pieces for Orchestra or Alban Bergâs Three Orchestra Pieces, both played by James Levine and his Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Sunday.
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There is a rough science to choosing performance-enhancing music.
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The orchestra offered a sublime program of Schubert and Bruckner, a weird but instructive all-Bartok program and a collection of Wagnerâs greatest hits over the weekend.
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The Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, the institution's resident chamber music ensemble, put on an adventurous program on Friday night.
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The Budapest Festival Orchestra â formed by Ivan Fischer in 1983 and conducted by him twice over the weekend at Avery Fisher Hall â enticed us with two of Bartokâs rare adventures into the theater.
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Here, revealed for the first time, are some of the secret passions of the classical music critics of The New York Times â the music they listen to when they are not listening to timeless classics.