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McGill and Ax woo, then wow, an intimate gathering at Zankel Hall
Clarinetist Anthony McGill was playing a pleasantly intimate recital Thursday night at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, when he let his accompanist play a solo. Something about “Moonlight.” ...
New York Classical Review3d
MasterVoices’ “Blind Injustice” lifts up the wrongly convicted with eclectic music
As ably led on Monday by Ted Sperling with a 12-piece orchestra and a MasterVoices chamber chorus of 33 singers, the piece ...
New York Classical Review6d
Tao seeks but does not always find in curious, Debussy-centered recital
Conrad Tao is one of the most compelling musicians on the classical scene. A talented pianist and composer, he also has the ...
New York Classical Review8d
Opera Lafayette to premiere oldest known opera by black American composer
Givonna Joseph, a mezzo-soprano who founded Opera Créole with her daughter in 2011, first encountered Morgiane in 2014 when a ...
New York Classical Review4d
Blue Heron returns to New York with fascinating Regis mass
It was a welcome return for this fine ensemble, which has been absent from New York for far too long. ARTEK performs “Musical Concerts at St. Ignatius of Antioch, 7 p.m., February 8. saintignatiusnyc.
New York Classical Review10d
Oundjian, Hadelich, and Yale Philharmonia dazzle in Britten, Berlioz, and Tower redux
While many musicians were fleeing Europe ahead of the cataclysm of World War II, Benjamin Britten was returning to the United Kingdom from a sojourn in the United States. Just before doing so in 1939, ...
New York Classical Review13d
Pianist Liu goes small and big in Russian works at Carnegie
Liu’s imaginative program design was matched by poetic playing in Tchaikovsky’s miniatures and fiery and sonorous renderings ...
New York Classical Review8d
Janowski makes a solid, belated Philharmonic debut
Beatrice Rana performed Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the New York Philharmonic Wednesday evening under conductor Marek Janowski. Photo: Chris Lee This week’s New York Philharmonic ...
New York Classical Review14d
Wang sports pianist and leader hats in Jazz Age Philharmonic program
Yuja Wang performed Janáček’s Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand and Chamber Ensemble with members of the New York Philharmonic Thursday night. Photo: Chris Lee The audience at the New York Philharmonic ...