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NYCR's Top Ten Performances of 2025 is posted! Click over to see what made the cut for the best classical nights of the ...
17/12/2025

NYCR's Top Ten Performances of 2025 is posted! Click over to see what made the cut for the best classical nights of the year as well as assorted bouquets and brickbats in our Year in Review.

Gustavo Dudamel isn’t officially the music director of the New York Philharmonic until next season, but performances this year show that conductor and orchestra are fully in sync. The pinnacle was the season-closing concert in May, a contender for one of the greatest Mahler performances from Mahle...

Russian rarities and early Schumann made lively bedfellows in Daniil Trifonov's recital Saturday night.
14/12/2025

Russian rarities and early Schumann made lively bedfellows in Daniil Trifonov's recital Saturday night.

The long shadow of Beethoven may have loomed over 19th-century composers in many countries, but in Russia it was Robert Schumann, with his quirky humor and tender emotions, who became the north star. Bringing his strangely irresistible combination of volcanic energy and intimate expression back to C...

The Met's holiday "Magic Flute" refreshes the spirit of the season.
13/12/2025

The Met's holiday "Magic Flute" refreshes the spirit of the season.

This is the time of the year for familiar comforts, and at the Metropolitan Opera that means the holiday version of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. This Magic Flute reduces the original and compresses the two Acts into one continuous ninety minute performance, with an English vernacular translation of ...

Accordionist Radu Ratoi dazzled with piquant originals and arranged classics Thursday night.
12/12/2025

Accordionist Radu Ratoi dazzled with piquant originals and arranged classics Thursday night.

The accordion is the only instrument that you play by embracing it. That helps to account for its unique brand of expressiveness, which was on display in abundance Thursday night in Merkin Hall, as accordionist Radu Ratoi made his New York debut.

The First Symphony provided the highlight of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe's all-Brahms program under Yannick Nézet-Sé...
10/12/2025

The First Symphony provided the highlight of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe's all-Brahms program under Yannick Nézet-Séguin Tuesday night.

Tuesday night’s concert in Isaac Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall was a throwback affair. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe was on stage, led by conductor and honorary member Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the program was not only all 19ᵗʰ century music but all Brahms: the Tragic Overture; the Do...

Despite being under the weather, Günther Groissböck brought intimacy and intensity to his lieder recital at Zankel Hall.
08/12/2025

Despite being under the weather, Günther Groissböck brought intimacy and intensity to his lieder recital at Zankel Hall.

Günther Groissböck is known to New York audiences from his appearances at the Metropolitan Opera. Since his debut as Colline in La Bohème in 2010, the Austrian bass has appeared in Verdi, Wagner, and Strauss, practically owning the role of Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier there and at opera houses...

Parlando explored jazz influences in classical music on Sunday with mixed success.
08/12/2025

Parlando explored jazz influences in classical music on Sunday with mixed success.

Ian Niederhoffer and his Parlando chamber orchestra are a didactic group, in the best sense. They put together concert programs to make aesthetic, historical, and philosophical points, which Niederhoffer further illuminates with remarks from the stage. That has set Parlando out from the crowd so far...

Gidon Kremer and friends evoked this world and the next one in their Arvo Pärt tribute Thursday night at Zankel Hall.
05/12/2025

Gidon Kremer and friends evoked this world and the next one in their Arvo Pärt tribute Thursday night at Zankel Hall.

A Baltic breeze wafted through Carnegie’s Zankel Hall Thursday night, as a trio of Latvian and Lithuanian musicians paid tribute to Estonia’s favorite son, Arvo Pärt.

Manfred Honeck led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a powerful stand with a Russian program Wednesday night at Carne...
04/12/2025

Manfred Honeck led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a powerful stand with a Russian program Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall.

Manfred Honeck has led the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as music director since 2008. The orchestra bears his imprint, a finely tuned ensemble intent on expressing the musical essence of a work. The Austrian conductor is a champion of the Viennese tradition of Mahler, Mozart, Brahms, and Bruckner.....

Old and new faces imbue the Met's "Porgy and Bess" revival with fresh drama and impact.
03/12/2025

Old and new faces imbue the Met's "Porgy and Bess" revival with fresh drama and impact.

Like a successful business enterprise, the Metropolitan Opera’s production of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess is carrying on through the years with a combination of old standbys, new faces and promotions from within.

Giordano's "Andrea Chenier" made an impassioned and riveting return to the Met Monday night.
25/11/2025

Giordano's "Andrea Chenier" made an impassioned and riveting return to the Met Monday night.

Andrea Chénier returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday evening after an absence of 11 years. Umberto Giordano’s tragedy requires three singers with the vocal chops and dramatic instincts to deliver its soaring vocal lines and seething passions. The Met has assembled such a cast, and with Dan...

The New York Youth Symphony opened its season with a thrilling stand at Carnegie Hall on Sunday.
24/11/2025

The New York Youth Symphony opened its season with a thrilling stand at Carnegie Hall on Sunday.

The New York Youth Symphony opened its season Sunday afternoon in Carnegie Hall with the kind of performance that one is used to from professional orchestras. That means a display of talent and taste that showed off what they can do and what they’re trying to do, but can’t quite fully execute as...

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