It’s easy to get spoiled by the English Concert and their annual visits to Carnegie Hall. With conductor Harry Bicket and an invariably deep and talented cast of singers, their concerts are the chance ...

This is, quite simply, one of the finest song cycles in classical music, an equal to the famous ones from Schumann, Schubert, and other European composers. This is also a great American work, with ...

Fifty years have passed since Ursula Oppens premiered Rzewski’s theme and variations on a Chilean anti-Pinochet protest song at the Kennedy Center in celebration of America’s Bicentennial. This ...

Clarice Assad’s NEXUS, which received its New York premiere in the Takács Quartet’s concert Wednesday night in Carnegie’s ...

Séguin, leading this work for the first time, and lastly Sharon’s staging, which was hit or miss (mostly the latter) all night. The star of the night was Davidsen as Isolde. She delivered a stellar, ...

Ailyn Pérez in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Now in its 20th season, Anthony Minghella’s 2006 production of Madama Butterfly still retains its ...

Kent Tritle conducted the Musica Sacra chorus and orchestra (strings, piano, harp, organ and percussion), with soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone John Moore, in vivid settings of 17 poems—some ...

Beauty is an odd but real issue. Philadelphia has one of the most beautiful orchestral sounds, but it still doesn’t quite have a Mahler sound—though it got much closer Tuesday night than previously.

Minyoung Rho, a superbly gifted pianist, introduced herself to New York audiences Monday night with an almost wholly successful recital in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. Although the event wasn’t ...