Most of the expressive strength in Music for New Bodies, is not in the vocal writing. There are fantastic solos for oboe and contrabassoon that urgently press against the limits of technique, and have ...

Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk are the latest in a line of star soloists who formed piano trios, dating back through such legendary ensembles as ...

The big event at Lincoln Center this summer is the Run Amoc* festival, produced by the American Modern Opera Company. More than opera, the festival will cover instrumental performances and dance ...

Concerts by the Orchestra of Madrid’s Teatro Real are becoming regular events in New York. The orchestra’s appearance on Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall marked its third performance here since 2022.

In a program that swung from the Continental Divide to the Nile in a single bound, the Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrated its 20 th anniversary Sunday night with a high-altitude performance in ...

Gustavo Dudamel conducted the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee For the past four seasons, the New York Philharmonic has been in a ...

Strauss’s Salome returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening in a new production by Claus Guth. It is Guth’s first assignment at the Met, coming rather late in the 61-year-old German opera ...

Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera There is a divide in John Adams’ opera career that’s not marked by ...

Some chamber music fans prefer the communal, no-stars ethos of an organization like the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Others like the interplay of big personalities when famous soloists get ...

Christophe Dumaux and Louise Alder in the English Concert’s performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto Sunday at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Fadi Kheir For any classical musician or ensemble to take ...

If opera casting were a competitive sport, there would have been something unfair about the new singers the Metropolitan Opera put in front of the audience Saturday night in Le Nozze di Figaro. This ...