The Juilliard String Quartet captured Beethoven at his brightest and darkest, with string quartets early and late.
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Concert Review: Pianist Alon Goldstein (NYC, 22 Oct. 2019)
The fiery pianist performed Scarlatti, Janacek, Debussy, Ginastera, and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata at BPAC.
Read More »Music Video Premiere: Reuel, EDM/Classical Crossover Pianist, with ‘Für Elise’ as You’ve Never Heard It
Reuel is a virtuoso pianist and classical-crossover and EDM artist whose most recent album leads off with a radical reimagining of the Beethoven favorite 'Für Elise.'
Read More »Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra – ‘Eroica’ (NYC, 17 May 2019)
Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony was a jubilant finish to the American Classical Orchestra's season under Thomas Crawford, showing their mastery of, and ardent feeling for, the classical repertoire.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Tomer Gewirtzman (NYC, 30 November 2018)
Israeli pianist Tomer Gewirtzman gave a glowing performance of a challenging program of Beethoven, Brahms, and three very different Russian composers.
Read More »Concert Review: Juilliard String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall (NYC, 19 Nov 2018)
The Juilliard String Quartet presented music by Beethoven and Dvořák and the NYC premiere of a new work by Lembit Beecher.
Read More »Concert Review: American Classical Orchestra with Contralto Avery Amereau (NYC, 24 March 2018)
The venerable original-instruments orchestra presented familiar and seldom-heard works, including Brahms's 'Alto Rhapsody' and music by Schubert and Ferdinand Ries.
Read More »Music Review: Lisa Hilton – ‘Escapism’
There is a poetic lyricism in Hilton's arrangements that pairs jazz with classic symphonies.
Read More »Concert Review: Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and Pianist Akira Eguchi (NYC, 20 April 2017)
Celebrated violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and pianist Akira Eguchi's program ranged from the 28-year-old Beethoven's teemingly imaginative first violin sonata to an evocative work for violin and electronics written in 2009 by the then also 28-year-old Jakub Ciupinski, inspired by the WWII wreck of an Italian ship.
Read More »Music Review: Cypress String Quartet – ‘Beethoven: The Early String Quartets’
The Cypress finishes recording all Beethoven's string quartets with this further testament to the composer's overall genius and the forward-pressing aspects of these relatively early but towering works. The Op. 18 quartets on this two-CD set are full of harmonic riches, rhythmic intricacy, and emotional complexity, all fully evident under the Cypress musicians' expert fingers.
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