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Giordano's "Andrea Chenier" made an impassioned and riveting return to the Met Monday night.
25/11/2025

Giordano's "Andrea Chenier" made an impassioned and riveting return to the Met Monday night.

Andrea Chénier returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday evening after an absence of 11 years. Umberto Giordano’s tragedy requires three singers with the vocal chops and dramatic instincts to deliver its soaring vocal lines and seething passions. The Met has assembled such a cast, and with Dan...

The New York Youth Symphony opened its season with a thrilling stand at Carnegie Hall on Sunday.
24/11/2025

The New York Youth Symphony opened its season with a thrilling stand at Carnegie Hall on Sunday.

The New York Youth Symphony opened its season Sunday afternoon in Carnegie Hall with the kind of performance that one is used to from professional orchestras. That means a display of talent and taste that showed off what they can do and what they’re trying to do, but can’t quite fully execute as...

The Galilee Chamber Orchestra brought a heartening if musically mixed night of "peace through music" to Carnegie Hall Th...
21/11/2025

The Galilee Chamber Orchestra brought a heartening if musically mixed night of "peace through music" to Carnegie Hall Thursday night.

Carnegie Hall is associated in the public’s mind chiefly with music, but since Andrew Carnegie founded it in the 1890s this institution has dealt as much in issues and ideas as in sharps and flats. The lofty ideal of “peace through music” has found a lasting home there, most recently through p...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard ideally framed the New York premiere of George Benjamin’s DIVISION (performed with the composer) a...
20/11/2025

Pierre-Laurent Aimard ideally framed the New York premiere of George Benjamin’s DIVISION (performed with the composer) at 92NY within the context of a century of piano music.

The night after Jean-Efflam Bavouzet played Le Tombeau de Couperin—and more Ravel—in Alice Tully Hall, another French pianist played the same piece. That musician was Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the venue was 92NY, and the context was vastly different.

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet crafted a masterful journey through the complete piano music of Maurice Ravel Tuesday night, presen...
19/11/2025

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet crafted a masterful journey through the complete piano music of Maurice Ravel Tuesday night, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

This year is Maurice Ravel’s sesquicentennial, and with his music proliferating on concert programs, there may be no better time to hear his work in concert. And of all the events, past and still to come, few are going to better, or likely even equal, Tuesday night’s Chamber Music Society of Lin...

The Greenwich Village Orchestra offered an attractive blend Sunday from Debussy to Berlioz.
17/11/2025

The Greenwich Village Orchestra offered an attractive blend Sunday from Debussy to Berlioz.

There is a cognitive dissonance that comes from seeing an orchestra arrayed on the stage of a high school auditorium and then hearing them actually sound pretty good. 

Piano worlds collide and converge with Beatrice Rana at Carnegie Hall.
17/11/2025

Piano worlds collide and converge with Beatrice Rana at Carnegie Hall.

“Great minds think alike” may just be a conversational tagline, but pianist Beatrice Rana’s recital in Carnegie Hall Wednesday night found unexpected points of contact between Sergei Prokofiev and Claude Debussy as they re-invented piano technique for the twentieth century.

A second cast provides comparable rewards in the Met's "Don Giovanni."
17/11/2025

A second cast provides comparable rewards in the Met's "Don Giovanni."

The monotonous Ivo van Hove staging remains the same, but the cast is new for the final performances of Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera. With one of the great opera scores and another group of superb singers, the music making is still a compelling reason to see this show.This new cast is diff...

Met debutants light up a debutante's story in Strauss's Arabella.
11/11/2025

Met debutants light up a debutante's story in Strauss's Arabella.

In imperial Vienna in the 1860s, everybody waltzed, from the salons of the aristocracy to the glittering parties of the wealthy bourgeoisie to the Cabdrivers’ Ball. That’s where the title character of Richard Strauss’s romantic comedy Arabella went for one last night of girlish fun before her ...

Brick Presbyterian Church wrapped a worthy Mozart Requiem within a church service.
11/11/2025

Brick Presbyterian Church wrapped a worthy Mozart Requiem within a church service.

The Brick Presbyterian Church’s Chancel Choir and Orchestra performed Mozart’s Requiem as part of the regular church service in their Park Avenue parish on a rainy Sunday evening. 

The Sebastians conjured up a multimedia music world with "Handel's London."
11/11/2025

The Sebastians conjured up a multimedia music world with "Handel's London."

Handel’s London–the phrase conjures images of teeming streets, crowded theaters and concert rooms, vigorous debates over coffee, and, looming over it all, the spires and domes of the city’s great neoclassical buildings.

Ian Hobson wrapped his multiyear journey of Robert Schumann's complete piano music on a high note.
11/11/2025

Ian Hobson wrapped his multiyear journey of Robert Schumann's complete piano music on a high note.

Ian Hobson’s multi-year project of performing Robert Schumann’s complete piano music came to an end Friday evening at the Tenri Cultural Institute. Begun in 2018 and interrupted by the Covid pandemic, the finale comprised two of the composer’s earliest pieces, Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp min...

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