Music
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Bychkov Befriends Tchaikovsky
New York Philharmonic in World Class Performance
By: - Jan 26th, 2017Semyon Bychkov brought all his rich knowledge of Tchaikovsky to David Geffen Hall and invited members of the New York Philharmonic to play their hearts out as he encouraged them in a stellar performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Each and every special detail emerged in a multi-textured whole. No one wanted to leave the Hall at the conclusion.
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Barenboim Reveals Bruckner at Carnegie Hall
Berlin Staastskapelle Berlin Uncover the Keys
By: - Jan 28th, 2017Bruckner's Seventh Symphony find brought him acclaim. To get away from the barbs of a merciless critic, he persuaded conductor Arthur Nikisch to open in Leipsig, far from the offending pen. The premier was greeted with fifteen minutes of applause. The Seventh is often called Bruckner's most accessible work. Barenboim conducting also shows its subtleties and complexities.
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Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin
Layering Bruckner in Carnegie Hall
By: - Jan 29th, 2017Bruckner's wish list included three harps for this Symphony No. 8. There were only two, but no matter. The Staatskapelle Berlin, performing the penultimate Bruckner Symphony with Daniel Barenboim, built layer upon layer, filling the outer reaches of Carnegie Hall with complex sounds, glorious to hear. MediciTV has some of Barenboim's Bruckner available for listening for the next three months.
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Jaap van Zweden Conducts Dallas Orchestra
Tchaikovsky and Bruckner Revealed
By: - Feb 04th, 2017Japp van Zweden the next music director of the New York Philharmonic, performs wonders in his current home town of Dallas, Texas.
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Susanna Phillips More Than a Beautiful Voice
Demonstrated How to Give a Song Recital
By: - Feb 08th, 2017Young American soprano, Susanna Phillips, has what it takes - a beautiful voice, a charming manner and a fierce intelligence. Her Celebrity Series concert, "Women's Lives and Loves," traced the female condition through song. It could serve as a seminar in how to build a vocal recital.
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Carnegie Hall Presents the Tallis Scholars
St. Ignatius Loyola Offers the Acoustics
By: - Feb 09th, 2017Carnegie Hall is offering a festival of Music from the Venetian Republic. At St. Ignatius Loyola, one of New York City’s acoustic treasures, the Tallis Scholars offered Venetian Voices, singing in split choirs, both to provide more vocal lines and to speak to each other when composers asked.
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Tchaikovsky Befriended by New York Philharmonic
Joshua Gersen Conducts with Brilliant Restraint
By: - Feb 11th, 2017The program began with Francesca da Rimini, a symphonic fantasy. The music seemed more likely to have been composed in 1976 than in 1876. The buzzing strings, dissonance and mixed instrumental textures are thoroughly modern. Yet the story is eternal: a woman falls in love with her husband’s brother and descends to hell. Tchaikovsky adopted this as program music from Dante. The whirlwind which sweeps up the musical story prepares us for a similar whirlwind in the fourth movement of the Pathetique.
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Jordi Savall Plays Venetian Music in Boston
Influence of Venetian Dance Music on Europe
By: - Feb 13th, 2017With more than 230 CDs and a rigorous touring schedule, Jordi Savall's "Hesperion XXI" is one of early music's most popular groups, sure to fill concert halls all over the world, especially in Boston a hotbed of the broad field of "early" music. In recent years, Savall has been focused on how music is transmitted between cultures over time, and this lively concert surveyed how Venetian dance music influenced music in France, Germany, England and Spain.
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2017 Solid Sound Festival Update
Musical Lineup Set for MASS MoCA June 23-25
By: - Feb 16th, 2017The musical lineup for the 2017 Solid Sound Festival, which takes place June 23-25 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, has been revealed. Let the games begin.
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Cappella Mediterranea's Monteverdi at Carnegie
Man's Damnation and Glory in Musical Poetry
By: - Feb 18th, 2017Cappella Meiterranea seduces with the wit and wisdom of Claudio Monteverdi swirling in voices and period instruments. Conducted from a bar stool by artistic director Leonardo García Alarcón, the angels and devils of history emerged from the wonderful voices of the group.
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Beethoven and Mahler at the NY Philharmonic
Inon Barnatan Graces the Concerto
By: - Feb 17th, 2017Manfred Honeck conducted the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven's first Piano Concerto and Gustsv Mahler's First Symphony. Beethoven’s was actually the second and a big leap forward from his first. Mahler’s took the world by storm, featuring nature, folk and funeral music and an expansion of orchestral sound from its time binds into space.
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A Jonathan Biss Carnegie Master Class
What's in a Note?
By: - Feb 19th, 2017Master classes give musicians a chance for deep listening to their performance and listeners a deeper understanding of music. Jonathan Biss is working on late compositions of composers. He thinks about near-end-of-life art. In it, he finds particular richness as he looks at the singular note, its overtones, and harmonics and chromaticism. These elements he finds drive excellent interpretations.
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Dorrance Dazzles at the Guggenheim
Bringing the Art of Tap Dance to a Museum
By: - Feb 19th, 2017Michelle Dorrance proves once again that the “Genius” award she received in 2015 for her tap-dancing brilliance (the same year as Lin-Manuel Miranda received his for “Hamilton”) is abundantly deserved!
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Tanglewood Launches Massive Upgrade
$30 Million Project to Open in 2019
By: - Feb 21st, 2017Tanglewood has announced plans for the construction of a new multi-use, multi-season four-building complex designed to support the performance and rehearsal activities of the Tanglewood Music Center and be the focal point of a new initiative, the Tanglewood Learning Institute, offering wide-ranging education and enrichment programs designed to enhance the patron experience.
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Ensemble Y at Weill Recital Hall
Venice of the 17th Century Played and Sung
By: - Feb 21st, 2017Carnegie Hall includes in their celebration of Venetian music a group of young artists, Ensemble Y. Instrumentalists and singers gave great pleasure in baroque music.
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Coronation of Poppea's Trip to Venice
Monteverdi's Last Opera Triumphs
By: - Feb 22nd, 2017Carnegie Hall has treated us with a two week virtual trip to Venice in the late 17th century. The final evening's performance was Claudio Monteverdi's last opera, L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Concerto Italiano produced a moving interpretation, ranging from camp fun to the deep contralto feelings of Ottone. Monteverdi began a tradition that lives on today in the operas of Kevin Puts, Nico Muhly and Missy Mazzoli.
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Carlisle Floyd's Prince of Players
Little Opera Stages a Beauty
By: - Feb 23rd, 2017The New York premiere of Carlisle Floyd's opera, Prince of Players, is mounted by little OPERA. The wonderful story is about a male actor who has made his livelihood playing women's roles and is out of job because King Charles II has issued an edict permitting women to play women's roles. The final outcome is surprising, but well-plotted by the composer, who is also his own librettist.
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The Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall
Franz Welser-Möst Conducts
By: - Feb 25th, 2017Schubert tripped the light fantastic, and so too René Staar, contemporary composer and musical polymath. Strauss Richard showed us how to share whatever narcissism we have with others and make it work. Another Strauss was a fillp to the moving and delightful evening at Carnegie Hall.
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Andris Nelsons Collaborates with BSO
Beautiful Tone, Dynamic Range and Story Telling
By: - Mar 03rd, 2017When Andris Nelsons stepped on to the Carnegie Hall stage as the last minute substitute for James Levine, we did not know that the event would be as momentous as Leonard Bernstein's last minute substitution for an aiiling Bruno Walter. Who knows how these seminal moments will be ranked in musical history. So much lies before the the young conductor. Performance after performance Nelsons and his musician collaborators from the Boston Symphony exceed themselves.
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St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie
Ambivalence of Shostakovich Apology Beautiful to Hear
By: - Mar 05th, 2017Who can play Shostakovich better than a Russian? Shostakovich’s Fifth symphony has come down to us as an apology to Stalin during a time of heightened scrutiny not only of artists but of everyone under him. Now it is thought to be a protest against Stalinist terror. Whatever its messages, and messages from Russians continue to be unclear, the music is beautiful, a classical symphony brought forward into the 20th century.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Masterful Storyteller
By: - Mar 07th, 2017Love battles evil in Swan Lake and Bluebeard's Castle. Yannick Nezet-Seguin, who comes to the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, is a masterful story teller, forging drama and complex pictures in the performance.of The Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Gallery
Out of this World Cabaret
By: - Mar 10th, 2017Serge Sabarsky was co-founded of the Neue Gallery, one of the most learned and charming places in New York. Cafe Sabarsky offers an Austrian menu. Often you can find cabaraet Artists like Rachelle Garniez performing.
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New York Philharmonic Performs John Adams
Happy Birthday to Tunes of Absolute Jest
By: - Mar 12th, 2017John Adams has close ties to the New York Philharmonic. He was in David Gefffen Hall to hear two works performed. In Absolute Jest a quartet formed by the principal performers of the Philharmonic was embedded, an alien force in their own home.
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Concert Artists Guild Encores
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
By: - Mar 15th, 2017On a dark and stormy night when many shows were cancelled in New York, young artists who had been prize winners in competitions held by the almost seventy-year-old Concert Artists Guild, performed in the jewel like concert hall, Weill Recital Hall. Their performances radiated warmth and style.
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Ensemble Connect at Weill Recital Hall
Venice of the 17th Century Played and Sung
By: - Feb 21st, 2017Carnegie Hall includes in their celebration of Venetian music a group of young artists, Ensemble Y. Instrumentalists and singers gave great pleasure in baroque music.
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