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Concert Review: Clarion Choir – Rachmaninoff’s ‘All-Night Vigil’ at Carnegie Hall (5 May 2023)
The Clarion Choir delivered a revelatory performance of Rachmaninoff's choral masterpiece inspired by traditional Russian Orthodox chant.
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 Review: Clarion Choir – Rachmaninoff: ‘All-Night Vigil’
The Clarion Choir makes a crowning statement with this beautifully recorded album of Rachmaninoff's great setting of Eastern Orthodox liturgical texts.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): Clarion Choir – Rachmaninoff, ‘Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom’ (31 December 2022)
The Clarion Choir's performance of Rachmaninoff's liturgical setting brought out its revelatory fusion of old and new – or what was new in the early 20th century.
Read More »Concert Review (NYC): ‘Midnight Magic,’ Mirror Visions Ensemble’s Brilliant Return to the Concert Stage
The vocal ensemble returns with a thrilling cabaret-style concert of art songs from Mozart to Sondheim to the present day.
Read More »Music Review: Vadym Kholodenko – ‘Scriabin: Preludes, Études and Sonatas’
The pianist's new album is a superb survey of some of the most distinctive music by a composer who is today well remembered and valued by musicians and composers, but heard by audiences too seldom.
Read More »From Russia to America: Pianist, Composer, and Transcriber Vyacheslav Gryaznov Delights in Musical Storytelling
While the pianist's impression is by no means comprehensive due to the short time he has spent here, the notion that the Russian pedagogical culture could be producing lazy students while the United States’ could be producing lazy teachers may not be so far-fetched.
Read More »Concert Review: Soprano Hanna Golodinskii and Pianist Oxana Mikhailoff – ‘Slavic Discoveries’ (NYC, 9/10/16)
Two amazingly talented artists performed music of Vladimir Drozdoff as well as of better-known Slavic composers in the Romantic tradition, including Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky.
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