BWW Reviews: The Philadelphia Orchestra With Choral Beethoven and Muhly
Yannick conducts the Orchestra, massed choirs, and soloists (including award-winner Shenyang) in Beethoven's Ninth and a mass by Muhly
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BWW Reviews: Baltimore Symphony Features Movie Music Maven Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Gershwin, Bernstein, and Ravel.
BWW Reviews: Oz Asia Festival 2013: T'ANG QUARTET: SECRETS AND SONGS Delight the Audience with Contemporary Music from East and West
The T'ang Quartet, comprising Ng Yu-Ying, first violin, Ang Chek Meng, second violin, Lionel Tan, viola, and Leslie Tan, cello, presented a very varied concert of six pieces by four contemporary composers.
CD REVIEW: The Principal Brass - Debut CD 'New York'
Who says classical music can't be fun?
BWW Reviews: Mostly Mozart Offers 'Enlightenment' on Handel
It's a slippery slope--when an orchestra commemorates the career of a famous singer, featuring other, less well-known artists.
BWW Reviews: Cleveland Orchestra Superb, Joffrey Ballet Disappoints
What happens when The Cleveland Orchestra, considered to be one of the world's great ensemble of musical performers, couples with the Joffrey Ballet, hailed as 'America's Ballet Company of Firsts?' After their well-received five sold-out performance of THE NUTCRACER last winter at PlayhouseSquare, a
BWW Reviews: Josh Groban Makes Wolf Trap Debut
The versatile and genuine performer elated the Wolf Trap crowd proving why he's achieved international stardom.
BWW Reviews: 'Bravo!' FIGARO and Ivan Fischer's Budapest Festival Orchestra at Mostly Mozart
From its earliest days, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival has included opera among its offerings, although I recall no production being quite so acclaimed as Iván Fischer's DON GIOVANNI of two seasons ago.
BWW Reviews: Mozart and Beethoven Duke It Out at Lincoln Center's 'Mostly Mozart' Opening. Guess Who Wins?
Is Lincoln Center planning to change its summertime schedule from “Mostly Mozart” to “Basically Beethoven”? If so, they couldn't have picked a better concert to put the point across than the opening program of this year's Festival.
BWW Reviews: National Symphony Orchestra Concert at Wolf Trap, WICKED DIVAS, Features Two of the Best on Broadway
Belting, showtunes, an exquisite orchestra? Who can ask for much more?
BWW Reviews: National Symphony Orchestra Cellist Shows Flair for Storytelling, Music with IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT G-STRING
With Caruthers sharing great music and interesting stories, you can't help but fall in love with the cello yourself.
BWW Reviews: Dramatic, Musical Tchaikovsky in NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART
At Shakespeare & Company the fusion of a classical concert with a dramatic story explores the relationship between Tchaikovsky and Mrs.
BWW Reviews: The New York Philharmonic Takes to the Stars!
As part of its 'SUMMERTIME CLASSICS' series, the New York Philharmonic presented Holst's 'THE PLANETS - AN HD ODYSSEY' at Avery Fisher Hall
BWW Reviews: Young Musicians Demonstrate Mature Talent
The Fourth of July weekend continued at the Bowdoin International Music Festival with an exciting showcase of the festival's young talent: a four-hour lineup of back to back concerts in the Artists of Tomorrow series.
BWW Reviews: Bowdoin International Music Festival Presents a Dazzling Evening of American Music
"Three hundred miles north of everywhere," the small but bustling college town of Brunswick, Maine, attracts some of the world's most prestigious musicians to its summer festival.
BWW Reviews: Fort Worth Symphony Dazzles Audiences with Concerts in the Garden
Superb classical music is alive and well in Fort Worth, where talented musical artists perform in beautiful settings, beneath the twinkling stars, and patrons show up by the thousands to enjoy them.
BWW Reviews: Russian Opera Workshop Programs Begin With RUSSIAN ROMANCES
Ghenady Meirson's annual young vocalists program begins with a recital of Rachmaninov art songs and more
BWW Reviews: WEST SIDE STORY Film is Accompanied by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Three cast members of the Academy Award winning film present fascinating stories about the making of the film WEST SIDE STORY.
BWW Reviews: POWDER HER FACE Stuns At Opera Philadelphia
Soprano Patricia Schuman leads Opera Philadelphia in a visually and vocally marvelous production of the modern chamber orchestra classic
BWW Reviews: James Levine Returns to Carnegie Hall
He's baa-aack! James Levine returns to Carnegie Hall.
BWW Reviews: IL PRIGIONIERO Holds Audience Captive at New York Philharmonic
It's a rare occasion when a concerto--even one as brilliantly played as violinist Lisa Batiashvili's performance of Prokofiev's First--takes a back seat to the second half of the program.
BWW Reviews: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Delights Adelaide Audiences
The Adelaide Festival Centre was opened in 1973 by then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, and the Premier of South Australia at that time, Don Dunstan.
BWW Reviews: The Firm's CONCERT 1, SCHUBERT Delights Adelaide Audience
In his short 32 years Schubert composed an enormous amount of music, including over 600 lieder (songs), nine symphonies, including his famous Symphony No.
BWW Reviews: Boykan and BMOP Present Boykan's ORCHESTRAL WORKS
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project provides a fine recording of Martin Boykan's works for full orchestra, with soloists Macomber and Sylvan
BWW Reviews: BMOP Presents Reza Vali's TOWARD THAT ENDLESS PLAIN
Iranian composer Vali's concerto for Persian ney and orchestra debuts on CD with two of his Persian folk song cycles.