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Concert Review: Pacifica Quartet – ‘American Snapshots’ at 92NY
Their Dvořák and Samuel Barber resonated, but their revival of George Crumb's Vietnam War protest 'Black Angels' was the star of the show.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Peoples’ Symphony Concerts Presents the Dover Quartet with Mozart, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky
The eminent Dover Quartet delivered musical thrills, infusing the auditorium with youthful energy.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Junction Trio – Shostakovich, Zorn, Brahms at 92NY
The Junction Trio's 92NY debut was a smartly conceived program of Shostakovich, Brahms, and a funny shocker of a world premiere by John Zorn.
Read More »Concert Review: Clarion Choir – ‘Rachmaninoff @ 150’ Finale with Ilya Maximov, Aleksey Bogdanov, NOVUS, Amor Artis Chamber Choir
The Clarion Choir finished its celebration of Sergei Rachmaninoff's 150th birth anniversary with a collaborative concert that included the dark 'Spring Cantata' and the extravagant Piano Concerto No. 3.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva Plays Chopin, Liszt
With intensive engagement, astounding energy and charismatic pianism, the Russian pianist offered a wide selection of Chopin masterpieces, then set up Liszt's legendary B Minor Sonata with two short pieces from late in Liszt's life.
Read More »Music Review: Karen Slack and Michelle Cann, ‘Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price’
Continuing the Florence Price revival, a new album from soprano Karen Slack and pianist Michelle Cann features 19 unpublished songs by Price, 16 of them world premiere recordings.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: All-Haydn Season Opener with Pinchas Zukerman, Michael Stephen Brown
The Chamber Music Society launched its new season with a sold-out all-Haydn concert that revealed the composer's seminal importance to the development of classical music.
Read More »Exclusive Interview: Jessica Gould on New, ‘Seminal’ Recording of Alessandro Stradella’s 17th-Century Oratorio ‘Ester’
The soprano and concert producer talks to us about her new recording of the rarely heard Biblical-themed oratorio by the Roman Baroque composer.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Death of Classical, NOVUS Bring ‘America’ to Crypt at St. John the Divine
The musicians of NOVUS interposed works by contemporary American composers between movements of Dvořák's "American" String Quartet.
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