2025年1月30日 · The Classical Review was founded in March 2010 by music critic Lawrence A. Johnson to establish a single, one-stop online source for classical music coverage.

2 天之前 · Seong-Jin Cho performed music of Ravel Sunday at Symphony Hall. Photo: Robert Torres/Celebrity Series of Boston Tis the season for musical marathons, at least in New England. A little more than a week after the Boston Symphony Orchestra wrapped its survey of the complete Beethoven symphonies, the ...

2 天之前 · In most seasons Opera Lafayette unearths works lost to time. For its latest offering, the group’s mission aligned with that of OperaCréole, based in New Orleans, to revive the music of forgotten African-American composers. On Monday night at Lincoln Theatre, the two organizations gave the belated world premiere of Morgiane, ou Le sultan d’Ispahan, a full-length opera written in France in ...

2025年1月30日 · Morgiane is considered the oldest complete opera by a black American composer as yet discovered. Borrowing loosely from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, its plot is typically exotic 19th-century operatic fare, involving a beautiful Arabian bride abducted by an evil Persian sultan. Her family attempts a rescue and is condemned to death. At the last minute, in a twist worthy of Mozart’s The ...

2025年1月4日 · As the fedora-hatted archaeologist was lowered into the Egyptian temple to begin the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Verdi’s Aida Tuesday night, he took a tumble while disengaging from his rope. That was only the first misstep in a new production that already had the misfortune to follow a legend, and then came up with few reasons to do so. For 36 years, Sonja Frisell’s mounting of ...

2025年1月21日 · One encounters a full Book of Claude Debussy’s Préludes infrequently in concert, the piano works usually played in small groupings. Rarer still is the opportunity to hear all 24 of Debussy’s Préludes in a single sitting. Jean-Yves Thibaudet performed Debussy’s complete Préludes Sunday ...

2024年11月17日 · What could possibly cast a shadow on the Berlin Philharmonic making its first trip in 21 years to the U.S. capital to play the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Friday night? The news that Hilary Hahn wouldn’t be joining them. Hahn had been scheduled to play Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the Berliners and their chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko, on the U.S. tour, but she has ...

2024年10月31日 · The Classical Review was founded in March 2010 by music critic Lawrence A. Johnson to establish a single, one-stop online source for classical music coverage.

2024年11月25日 · Love was in the air Saturday night at Carnegie Hall, as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, led by its chief conductor designate Klaus Mäkelä, cast its penetrating spotlight on two late-Romantic works rooted in forbidden passion. Arnold Schoenberg was 25 when a poem about a love triangle (or rectangle, if you count the baby growing inside the woman) inspired what is still his most frequently ...

2024年4月25日 · The Classical Review was founded in March 2010 by music critic Lawrence A. Johnson to establish a single, one-stop online source for classical music coverage.