New York Classical Review

ACO opens season in style with dramatic Haydn, bumptious Beethoven

Haydn pushes the Classical Mass toward symphonic drama, using the limited forces available to him—strings, organ, trumpets, and timpani—to create music of extraordinary darkness and urgency, qualities ...
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Morton Feldman in squarely in the mainstream at Graphic Content Festival

Centennials are big deals with built-in reasons to present things that aren’t in mainstream institutional planning. But Feldman is now the mainstream and has been for a while. The Graphic Content ...
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Critic’s Choice

In his inaugural season as music director Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the New York Philharmonic in music of Stravinsky and de Falla March 10-24, 2027. Caroline Shaw is this season’s Richard and ...
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Nézet-Séguin, Met Orchestra still finding their way with Mahler

Joyce DiDonato was the soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, performed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra Thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Jennifer Taylor Everything is a work in ...
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Gotta Dance! Feldman, others hit the floor at MATA Festival

Music of Morton Feldman and others was performed at the MATA Festival Thursday night at the DiMenna Center. The great thing about the MATA Festival is that you never know what you’re going to get, ...
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Curtis Chamber Orchestra brings youthful verve and finesse to cornerstones

The Curtis Chamber Orchessra performed Sunday at 92Y. Photo: Fadi Kheir The Curtis Chamber Orchestra performed a trio of repertoire staples to perfection Sunday afternoon at the 92nd Street Y. The ...
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Calder Quartet explores the richness, variety of the American string quartet

The Calder Quartet performed American music Thursday night at Weill Recital Hall. Carnegie Hall’s “United in Sound: America at 250” series this season has already made for a substantial, though subtle ...
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A trio of worthy debuts boosts Met’s “Onegin” revival

Asmik Grigorian as Tatiana and Iurii Samoilov in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin returned to the ...
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A tragedy haunts the past and present in Met’s “Innocence”

Vilma Jää as Markéta and Joyce DiDonato as the Waitress in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera Conductor Susanna Mälkki, one of Saariaho’s most ...
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Takács players dissect and reassemble the string quartet with new Assad piece

The interpersonal dynamics of a professional string quartet have intrigued listeners ever since Joseph Haydn pioneered the genre two and a half centuries ago. How do four top-drawer musicians, with ...
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Adès, Philharmonic serve a four-course feast with much food for thought

Thomas Adès conducted the New York Philharmonic Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee America: A Prophecy was the title of just one of the four works in Thursday’s concert by the New ...
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Bellini’s music, fine cast carry the day over directorial excess in Met’s “Puritani”

Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee star in Bellini’s I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera This is a Bellini season at the Metropolitan Opera, which is both a welcome ...