New York Classical Review

Lim’s breathless speed race leaves Mozart sonatas largely in the dust

The Sonata in C major, K. 279, is certainly the “earliest” in terms of musical language, hewing closely to the style galant of J.C. Bach and other models. Lim’s fleet, articulated performance of the ...
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Great music, moving moments vie with libretto, structural issues in Met premiere of “Lincoln in the Bardo”

The Metropolitan Opera mounted the world premiere production of Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo on Monday night. This is ...
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Carnegie’s Mahler cycle off to an unsettled start with a Fifth Symphony of anticlimaxes

One of the biggest events on this season’s classical music calendar is the Mahler Symphony Cycle Yannick Nézet-Séguin will be ...
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Greek National Opera Orchestra brings varied gifts to Carnegie Hall

It’s always an occasion when an ensemble makes their first appearance in Carnegie Hall, and groups like to put their best ...
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Berlin Philharmonic brings fresh conviction to familiar Brahms and Strauss

There have always been Brahms haters among us, from the composer Tchaikovsky to contemporary critics who find his music ...
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Orpheus pleases with Mozart, Schumann and new work, all for free at Carnegie

In keeping with putting on a quality program for their free-admission audience, Orpheus engaged the star Dutch piano duo of Lucas and Arthur Jussen, brothers in their 20s whose good looks are matched ...
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A staged Reich masterpiece makes for a memorable night at Park Avenue Armory

He is one of the canonic composers of our time, and a great and essential artist in the long history of classical music, on equal footing with all the big names of the past. He and his peer and ...
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Alternate cast keeps the romance and comedy alight in Met’s “Bohème”

La Bohème will run through October 31 with Freddie De Tommaso and Adam Smith alternating as Rodolfo and Juliana Grigoryan and Kristina Mkhitaryan as Mimì. Additional runs of La Bohème with different ...
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Tesori’s “Grounded” scores a dark triumph in Met season opener

Emily D’Angelo stars as Jess in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine ...
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Vocal performances keep Met’s “Lohengrin” aloft in downbeat new staging

Tamara Wilson as Elsa and Piotr Beczała in the title role of Wagner’s Lohengrin. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera ended its mid-winter hiatus with the much-anticipated premiere of ...
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The Sebastians open season with a buoyant concerto feast

Isabelle Seula Lee and Nicholas DiEugenio performed Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins in A minor with The Sebastians Saturday night at Brick Presbyterian Church. Photo: Shawn Salley Born in the ...
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“Dead Man Walking” powerfully opens Met season, video excess apart

Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera It was a long trek, but Dead Man Walking finally made it the last mile to the ...