New York Classical Review

07/09/2026

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2026 has marked the centennials of some of the greatest American musicians in history, including Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Two others made up half of the New York School of composers: Morton Feldman and Earle Brown. Feldman has already been featured in concerts, and this festival brings Brown,....

20/08/2026

AMOC brings a blast of silence to music of Sciarrino, Hersch at TIME:SPANS.

The ensemble performing works by Salvatore Sciarrino and Michael Hersch as part of the TIME:SPANS festival was called the American Modern Opera Company. But the result was more bracingly modern than conventionally operatic Wednesday night at the DiMenna Center.

16/08/2026

The University of Chicago-based Grossman Ensemble provided a compelling trek through modernism at the TIME:SPANS festival Saturday night.

Concert programs are frequently organized around a theme, some historical or aesthetic idea that relates each piece of music to the others. This is true as frequently for new music, where concerts are often presented as a demonstration of new concepts and movements.

01/08/2026

Karina Canellakis, Kirill Gerstein and the talented musicians of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America made a superb team Friday night at Carnegie Hall in music of Barber, Gershwin and Bartok.

For a parent, there can be a mix of deep satisfaction and regret seeing your children grow up. It’s thrilling to see them becoming who they are and gaining confidence in what they can do. But each day that passes has to be consigned to memory, a collection of experiences that will never be repeate...

14/07/2026

Jiwon Yang opened the Mannes International Piano Festival with color and virtuosity Monday night.

The Mannes International Piano Festival, a summer offering of the Mannes School of Music at The New School, brings together seminars, coaching, a competition, and a concert series presenting rising stars of the keyboard. 

10/07/2026

Robert Schumann's chamber music well served by a starry trio and friends at 92NY.

There was a compact and dense Schumann chamber music series at 92NY this week, headlined by the starry trio of violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis, and pianist Jeremy Denk. Thursday night, with the addition of violinist Irène Duval and violist Blythe Teh Engstroem, the group played three...

09/07/2026

Delirium Musicum brought fire and skill to its eclectic New York debut Tuesday night at the Naumburg Bandshell.

A record-setting July Fourth heat wave mercifully broke Tuesday night, but the string playing was hot at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, where a young ensemble from Los Angeles, Delirium Musicum, was making its New York debut, presented by Naumburg Orchestral Concerts.

19/06/2026

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra are still finding their way with Mahler.

Everything is a work in progress, even in classical music. Scores and parts on music stands have the illusion of being fixed and done, but most premieres are readied for a certain date, but often not yet in their final versions. And even when they are, getting those fixed notes on the page in shape....

12/06/2026

Bruckner's Eighth built cumulative power and cohesion with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra Thursday night at Carnegie Hall.

Anton Bruckner, the country boy who toiled long in obscurity but eventually wowed musical Vienna with his massive symphonies, frankly acknowledged his debts to Beethoven and Wagner—the former for symphonic form and the latter for orchestral sonority. 

06/06/2026

100 years of American piano music in an hour with Jenny Lin opening Merkin Hall's two-day keyboard festival Friday night.

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