Conductor Elim Chan applied her ardent energy to a strong New York Philharmonic program featuring cellist Sol Gabetta and 'Scheherazade.'
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Music Review: ‘Sirventès’ from the Iranian Female Composers Association
This collection of music by six contemporary female composers from Iran is an eloquent document of the driving creative spirit these composers in a time of reckoning and exile.
Read More »Concert Review: Cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk – ‘Against the Tide: Rachmaninoff & Franck’ (13 April 2023)
Two composers who were famously not ahead of their time get their due in a chamber concert by two outstanding young musicians.
Read More »Concert Preview: ‘Against the Tide: Rachmaninoff & Franck’ at the Aspect Chamber Music Series
The Aspect Chamber Music series in NYC continues April 13 with 'Against the Tide: Rachmaninoff & Franck,' two composers whose once 'old-fashioned' music has stood the test of time.
Read More »Music Reviews: Cellist Amit Peled, Composer Stanley Grill
An arrangement for four cellos of Bach's Cello Suite No. 6 sounds surprisingly authentic; plus evocative music for (mostly) strings by Stanley Grill
Read More »Concert Review: Cellist Sophie Shao, Pianist John Blacklow – Music by Debussy, Herschel Garfein and Others (30 September 2022)
An exciting new piece by Brooklyn composer Herschel Garfein fit smoothly with Debussy and George Walker at Bargemusic.
Read More »Music Review: Amit Peled Plays Bach Cello Suites on ‘Solus et Una’
The cellist emerges from pandemic lockdown with a beautiful album of Bach and Brahms.
Read More »Music Reviews: ‘Tanbou Kache,’ Haitian Art Music from Diana Golden and Shawn Chang; ‘The Mandolin Seasons: Vivaldi and Piazzolla’ from Jacob Reuven and Omer Meir Wellber
Haitian art music for piano and cello, and Vivaldi and Piazzolla on mandolin and accordion.
Read More »Concert Review: Yo-Yo Ma Joins Youth Music Culture Guangdong Symphony Orchestra at Closing Concert
A stellar concert brought the 2022 edition of YMCG to a close with Beethoven and Dvořák from the past, Yo-Yo Ma from a distance, and much promise for the future.
Read More »Concert Review: Cellist Jakob Kullberg (Brooklyn, 2 February 2020)
Music by six Nordic composers, including Kullberg himself, allowed three fine musicians to focus on the cellist's ongoing search for new ways to build on the past century's musical traditions while forging his own path.
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