Feb 5, 2025 · The Classical Review was founded in March 2010 by music critic Lawrence A. Johnson to establish a single, one-stop online source for classical music coverage.

Nov 17, 2024 · Petrenko brought Korngold’s symphony on his last U.S. tour with the Berliners, and he has clear affection for this music, shaping a gorgeous gauzy opening to the second movement and marshaling blasts of brassy exuberance during the finale. If, in the final analysis, this concerto lacks a cohesive musical argument, it boasts a ton of gorgeous moments, and Beilman and the orchestra made the ...

Nov 25, 2024 · Love was in the air Saturday night at Carnegie Hall, as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, led by its chief conductor designate Klaus Mäkelä, cast its penetrating spotlight on two late-Romantic works rooted in forbidden passion.

Jan 10, 2024 · The spirit of Brahms, a composer whom Hough describes as writing music that has “a heart as well as a head,” also infuses the work. He specifically cites Brahms’s skill with counterpoint and his tight structural approach, as well his ability to “turn themes upside down.”

Dec 5, 2023 · The Classical Review was founded in March 2010 by music critic Lawrence A. Johnson to establish a single, one-stop online source for classical music coverage.

Jan 30, 2025 · The Classical Review was founded in March 2010 by music critic Lawrence A. Johnson to establish a single, one-stop online source for classical music coverage.

Nov 15, 2024 · With over 500 performances, even a crowd-pleasing production like Franco Zeffirelli’s La Bohème can be hard to keep fresh, or even interesting.What’s more, this work has been presented more than any other at the Metropolitan Opera, which has been deeply involved with Puccini throughout the company’s history.

Nov 20, 2024 · There was a single flaw in the Berlin Philharmonic’s performance of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 Monday night in Carnegie Hall. The second movement, one of Buckner’s splendid Adagios, had a pace that might have been a fraction fast under chief conductor Kirill Petrenko—the marking is “Sehr langsam,” “very slowly,” and …

Apr 25, 2024 · There’s nothing like making up for lost time. That, on the one hand, is what the Bamberg Symphony did in their first Celebrity Series concert since 1983, delivering one of the meatiest—and most canon-centric—programs of the season …

Apr 30, 2024 · The transition into the final movement seems to make more sense emerging from the Scherzo rather than the Andante. Rattle charted the nearly half-hour finale with consummate skill, making one almost believe that this time the energetic progress towards an optimistic conclusion would actually succeed.