This typically thoughtful programme from Sakari Oramo was marketed as ‘an evening-long meditation on life and the hereafter’. The Lark Ascending is scarcely that – Ursula Vaughan Williams also maintained that her husband, a reluctant countryman, could […]
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner’s epic of warring gods and mortals struggling for possession of the magic Ring that grants power to rule the world, takes at least fifteen hours to play out, but on this […]
On long walks during the live performance hiatus brought about by the Covid pandemic, Renée Fleming conceived what became her album, ‘Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene,’ juxtaposing vocal classics featuring imagery of nature with works […]
Jon Favreau’s comedy Elf, the story of Buddy, a human accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised among Santa’s elves, who travels to New York City at age 30, in full […]
Over the past two decades a period-instrument aesthetic has dominated the Philharmonic’s annual presentations of Messiah with early-music specialists such as Harry Bicket, Jeanette Sorrell, Masaaki Suzuki and Fabio Biondi recruited to conduct them. This year Ton Koopman, founder […]
Eight months after her dazzling performance of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Bamberg Symphony and Jakub Hrůša, Hélène Grimaud returned for a recital combining ‘The Three Bs’. She began with an uncommonly resonant reading […]
For her New York Philharmonic debut, Keri-Lynn Wilson, founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, led an all-Russian program, Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 in conjunction with William Kentridge’s Oh to Believe in Another World,surveying the composer’s rocky relationship […]
Jeffrey Marc Buchman’s new production of The Magic Flute presents the story as the imaginative creation of a group of teenagers immersed in a role-playing game, such as Dungeons & Dragons. Stephan Moravski’s scenic designs, implemented by […]
This second evening in a three-day Carnegie Hall residency as part of the Czech Philharmonic’s North American tour and New York City’s contribution to the 2024 Year of Czech Music, especially noteworthy as it marks […]
Stephen Hough has been a fixture on Planet Piano for years, but there is nothing to take for granted in the completeness and freshness of his musicianship. Like an alchemist, he both challenges and deepens […]
%20Craig%20Fuller.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "A lot more emotional resonance than you might expect: Jonathan Dove & Alasdair Middleton's Itch return to Opera Holland Park shows it is more than a rattling good yarn")
