New York Classical Review

July 3

B. Franklin (attr.): Quartet in F major for Three Violins and Cello Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, “The Joke” Mozart: String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589, “Prussian” ...
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Nézet-Séguin, Met Orchestra still finding their way with Mahler

Joyce DiDonato was the soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, performed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra Thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Jennifer Taylor Everything is a work in ...
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Curtis Chamber Orchestra brings youthful verve and finesse to cornerstones

The Curtis Chamber Orchessra performed Sunday at 92Y. Photo: Fadi Kheir The Curtis Chamber Orchestra performed a trio of repertoire staples to perfection Sunday afternoon at the 92nd Street Y. The ...
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Met wraps the season successfully with Frank’s impassioned “Frida y Diego”

Isabel Leonard and Carlos Álvarez star in Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera The final production of the Metropolitan Opera ...
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A luminous Feola triumphs in Met’s “Traviata”

Rosa Feola as Violetta and Liparit Avetisyan as Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera May at the Metropolitan Opera brought a fresh cast to Verdi’s La ...
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Lim’s mercurial imagination runs free in richly textured Carnegie recital

Mozart’s friend, the composer Dittersdorf, once noted the “astonishing wealth of ideas” in his colleague’s music, and then added, “I wish he were not so lavish with them. He leaves his hearer out of ...
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A trio of worthy debuts boosts Met’s “Onegin” revival

Asmik Grigorian as Tatiana and Iurii Samoilov in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin returned to the ...
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A tragedy haunts the past and present in Met’s “Innocence”

Vilma Jää as Markéta and Joyce DiDonato as the Waitress in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera Conductor Susanna Mälkki, one of Saariaho’s most ...
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Violinist Neubauer displays auspicious artistry at Morgan Library

The word “talent” says so much and so little. It says that there is something promising, but that could also mean so many things: technique, poise, charisma, artistry. It’s also the quality that Young ...
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Double trouble: Singers reach the heights in Met’s “Tristan”; staging, conducting not so much

Lisa Davidsen and Michael Spyres in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera There’s plenty to think about and argue with in Sharon’s claims, and he put ...
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Adès, Philharmonic serve a four-course feast with much food for thought

Thomas Adès conducted the New York Philharmonic Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee America: A Prophecy was the title of just one of the four works in Thursday’s concert by the New ...
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Bellini’s music, fine cast carry the day over directorial excess in Met’s “Puritani”

Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee star in Bellini’s I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera This is a Bellini season at the Metropolitan Opera, which is both a welcome ...