Classical Music Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 30

BWW Reviews: Baltimore Symphony Features Movie Music Maven Jean-Yves Thibaudet
by Charles Shubow - October 03, 2013

Gershwin, Bernstein, and Ravel...what a concert...

BWW Reviews: Oz Asia Festival 2013: T'ANG QUARTET: SECRETS AND SONGS Delight the Audience with Contemporary Music from East and West
by Barry Lenny - September 23, 2013

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'
by Peter Danish - September 04, 2013

Who says classical music can't be fun?...

BWW Reviews: Mostly Mozart Offers 'Enlightenment' on Handel
by Richard Sasanow - August 26, 2013

It's a slippery slope--when an orchestra commemorates the career of a famous singer, featuring other, less well-known artists. That's exactly what the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment did last Thursday at Mostly Mozart in Alice Tully Hall. In an all-Handel concert, the group remembered its long...

BWW Reviews: Josh Groban Makes Wolf Trap Debut
by Jennifer Perry - August 17, 2013

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
by Richard Sasanow - August 15, 2013

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. With so much to live up to, the director-conductor's vision of Mozart's LE NOZZE DI FIGA...

BWW Reviews: Mozart and Beethoven Duke It Out at Lincoln Center's 'Mostly Mozart' Opening. Guess Who Wins?
by Richard Sasanow - August 02, 2013

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. Heard on Wednesday evening, July 31, the performance was led by Musi...

BWW Reviews: National Symphony Orchestra Concert at Wolf Trap, WICKED DIVAS, Features Two of the Best on Broadway
by Jennifer Perry - July 29, 2013

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
by Jennifer Perry - July 27, 2013

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
by Larry Murray - July 21, 2013

At Shakespeare & Company the fusion of a classical concert with a dramatic story explores the relationship between Tchaikovsky and Mrs. von Meck. Much -though not all- is revealed in this story about the composer vis his letters, his music and the intertwining of theatre, music and dance....

BWW Reviews: The New York Philharmonic Takes to the Stars!
by Peter Danish - July 11, 2013

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
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - July 08, 2013

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. The purpose of these recitals is to create a platform where the festival's student...

BWW Reviews: Bowdoin International Music Festival Presents a Dazzling Evening of American Music
by Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - July 08, 2013

"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. The Bowdoin International Music Festival, now in its forty-ninth year, is a performance and practice program where 250 c...

BWW Reviews: Fort Worth Symphony Dazzles Audiences with Concerts in the Garden
by Anton Anderssen - July 05, 2013

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
by Marakay Rogers - June 30, 2013

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
by Charles Shubow - June 23, 2013

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
by Marakay Rogers - June 12, 2013

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
by Peter Danish - June 11, 2013

He's baa-aack! James Levine returns to Carnegie Hall....

BWW Reviews: IL PRIGIONIERO Holds Audience Captive at New York Philharmonic
by Richard Sasanow - June 08, 2013

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. But the New York Philharmonic's concert performance of Luigi Dallapiccola's IL PRIGIONIERO, conducted authorita...

BWW Reviews: ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT Delights Adelaide Audiences
by Barry Lenny - June 03, 2013

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. To celebrate that opening, the Adelaide Festival Centre and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra jointly presented this sensational concert....

BWW Reviews: The Firm's CONCERT 1, SCHUBERT Delights Adelaide Audience
by Barry Lenny - May 30, 2013

In his short 32 years Schubert composed an enormous amount of music, including over 600 lieder (songs), nine symphonies, including his famous Symphony No. 8 in B minor, the Unfinished Symphony. This concert was performed by soprano Emma Horwood, male alto Matthew Rutty, tenor Martin Penhale, and bas...

BWW Reviews: Boykan and BMOP Present Boykan's ORCHESTRAL WORKS
by Marakay Rogers - May 26, 2013

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
by Marakay Rogers - May 25, 2013

Iranian composer Vali's concerto for Persian ney and orchestra debuts on CD with two of his Persian folk song cycles. Soloists Khosrow Soltani and Janna Baty, with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project directed by Gil Rose, highlight the compositions....

BWW Reviews: WEST SIDE STORY at the Symphony Gives New Life to Classic Movie
by Alan Henry - May 29, 2013

West Side Story at the Symphony is an incredible experience, combining the classic movie with a a score played live by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra....

BWW Reviews: Tempesta di Mare's GREAT BOOKS Program is One for the Books
by Marakay Rogers - May 13, 2013

Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone save their audience some reading time by letting them enjoy the musical versions of several literary classics....