Live, Video: Concerts

The LSO’s Conductor Laureate, Michael Tilson Thomas, takes his time over Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, while Lukás Vondráček seeks out the extremes in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto.

With two very well-known pieces, could Gabriela Montero, Gražintyė-Tyla and the CBSO find ways of keeping them interesting? The answer was a resounding ‘Yes’. 

Igor Levit's pianissimo playing is the highlight of his Brahms, but for all its vaunted acoustics, Carnegie Hall is sometimes not kind to concerto soloists.

The program, set long before Crumb’s death in February, following an implicit logic from Debussy to Stravinsky through Charles Ives and ending in Crumb’s somber lament, Ancient Voices of Children. 

The Knights consistently put on some of the most interesting classical concerts in New York. Friday night’s offering at the 92nd Street Y was no exception.

Young Brazilian conductor José Soares makes an impressive debut in Budapest with the MÁV Symphony Orchestra, but his soloist, Michaela Fukačová, falls disappointingly short of expectations in her concerto appearance.