New York Classical Review

Romanian folk fares best in Eder’s Carnegie recital

Pianist Terry Eder has an interesting sideline: presenting pianists. Key Pianists, the concert series Eder directs, has been bringing noteworthy keyboard artists to Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall since ...
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ASO revives American Centennial classics, including a belated Bristow premiere

Though he was not officially Dvořák’s pupil, Burleigh was indebted to him for the bright woodwinds and swooping strings of ...
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A complete Ring and Mahler cycle to highlight Carnegie Hall’s 2026-27 season

Carnegie Hall’s 2026-2027 schedule promises some of the most substantial and out-of-the-ordinary satisfactions for classical ...
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A smartly varied survey of film music by String Orchestra of Brooklyn

A substantial crowd came out in single-digit temperatures and slicing winds to the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, to hear SOB play film score music as music, with not a ...
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Budapest Festival Orchestra musicians sing and play modern and Romantic classics

Summa is a setting of the Credo (“I believe”) section of the Latin Mass, which is typically set to assertive music. But in 1977, the Estonian composer was living in the atheistic Soviet Union; his ...
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Yannick, Met Orchestra and Leonard deftly distill American music in Carnegie series

Nézet-Séguin has done invaluable work recording symphonies by William Grant Still, Florence Price, and this one. So it was a surprise that it didn’t feel like he had a grasp on the episodic structure ...
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“Andrea Chénier” makes an impassioned, riveting return to the Met

Piotr Beczała in the title role and Sonya Yoncheva as Maddalena in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera Andrea Chénier returned to the Metropolitan ...
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A Stravinsky night to remember with Kopatchinskaja‘s Philharmonic debut

Patricia Kopatchinskaja performed Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto with Jakub Hrůša and the New York Philharmonic Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Marco Borggreve The main attraction at New ...
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Sierra and Villazón shine brightly in Met’s new “Sonnambula”

Nadine Sierra stars as Amina in Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera For such a famous opera, a vehicle for some of the great modern divas, La Sonnambula ...
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A starry cast delivers an imposing, powerful “Don Carlos” in belated Met premiere

Matthew Polenzani in the title role and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus ...
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Gardiner’s Beethoven series continues with a tired Fourth, revelatory Fifth

Painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820. Beethoven was a revolutionary in many genres: he redefined the way we think of the string quartet, the piano sonata, the concerto, and more. But it’s his ...