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Fujita turned to passions of a more poetic sort in Liszt’s “Sonnetto del Petrarca No. 104,” the first of the program’s two pieces from the Italian section of Années de pèlerinage.The opening pages of this musical response to a Petrarch sonnet found the pianist in his pearly mode as a musing melody glowed in the piano’s upper and middle registers, and even the subsequent virtuoso ...
A new cast still finding its footing in Met’s “Tosca”
1 day ago · Tosca is a mainstay of the Metropolitan Opera’s fall season with three cast changes and just as many conductors in David McVicar’s mostly conventional, if off-kilter production. The second cast—Lise Davidsen as Tosca, Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, and Quinn Kelsey as Scarpia—made its first appearance Tuesday evening with mixed results.
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Feb 8, 2023 · Carnegie Hall to examine music of Weimar era in ambitious 2024 festival – Feb 28, 2023. Carnegie Hall’s 2023-2024 season will be built around some familiar artists […]
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Oct 24, 2024 · Kopatchinskaja sets London Philharmonic concert ablaze with Shostakovich – Oct 20, 2024. Reflecting on Saturday’s impressive concert by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in […]
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Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 12:04 pm. By George Grella. Conrad Tao performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 with Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee. On paper, this week’s New York Philharmonic program is as standard as it gets: Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture; Mozart’s Piano ...
An ailing Flórez still makes it a great night at Carnegie
Nov 30, 2023 · An ailing Flórez still makes it a great night at Carnegie. Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 3:17 pm. By David Wright. Juan Diego Flórez and pianist Vincenzo Scalera performed at Carnegie Hall Wednesday night. Photo: Steve J. Sherman. It came billed as a sort of master class in singing classic Italian arias. But the recital by tenor Juan Diego Flórez and ...
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January 25 – Dec 23, 2022. Metropolitan Opera Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites Ailyn Pérez, Sabine Devieilhe, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jamie Barton, […]
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Apr 13, 2024 · Yet with Manfred Honeck conducting the New York Philharmonic, however, they emerged remarkably fresh and thrilling on Friday evening. It was a concert where melody, orchestral color, and emotion held sway, beginning with the first work on the program, the New York premiere of Katherine Balch’s musica pyralis (Music of the Firefly).
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November 10 – Oct 22, 2024. Mao Fujita, pianist A. Yashiro: Selections from Twenty-four Preludes Scriabin: Fantasy in B minor Liszt: “Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104” from Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année: Italie, No. 5 Liszt: “Après une lecture du Dante” (Fantasia quasi sonata) from Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année: Italie, No. 7
Hewitt’s style proves better suited to Baroque than Brahms at 92Y
Oct 31, 2024 · Hewitt’s style proves better suited to Baroque than Brahms at 92Y. Angela Hewitt performed Wednesday night at 92Y. Photo: Keith Saunders. Angela Hewitt and Johannes Brahms are both antiquarians at heart, immersing themselves in very old music—she to perform it in concert, he to deepen his understanding of composition.