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Music Review | New York Philharmonic: A Hefty Sound for Bach and a Piano-Centric Strauss and Szymanowski

At a time when historically informed performance has become the norm, even among modern-instrument ensembles, it’s hard not to wonder why the New York Philharmonic has become so intent on performing Bach. Perhaps the musicians want to get their hands ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  4 Jan 2009

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‘LA BOHÈME’ (Saturday and Tuesday) Franco Zeffirelli’s overblown “Bohème” returns to the Met for its regular airing. The Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska is an affecting Mimi, singing with a fluid, dark-hued voice, earthy timbre and powerful top notes. ...

From VIVIEN SCHWEITZER, ANTHONY TOMMASINI AND ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  2 Jan 2009

Music Review | New York Sinfonia: Reflecting on Peace in the Quiet Light of Song

The New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace has become a tradition at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine since Leonard Bernstein proposed the idea and, in 1983, conducted the first installment. It was a typical Bernstein gesture: instead of ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  1 Jan 2009

Music Review | New York String Orchestra Seminar: Sweet Strings of Youth on the Big Stage

The New York String Orchestra Seminar, a 10-day program that brings a few dozen high school- and college-age musicians to New York every December, is mostly a private affair: the young players there are 62 this year devote most of their time to master ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  29 Dec 2008

Music: Hard Day’s Night for Beatles Reissues

If you still believe in Santa Claus, you might also have expected to wake up on Christmas morning and find an iPod stocked with the long-promised reissues of all the Beatles albums. But if you know the shocking truth about Santa, you probably know that ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  26 Dec 2008

Music Review | New York String Orchestra: Mozart as a Holiday Tradition: Zesty to Plaintive

The music on its program makes no references to herald angels, Noels or partridges in pear trees, or even straying sheep. But the New York String Orchestra’s Christmas Eve concerts at Carnegie Hall have become dependable seasonal draws. And since they ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  26 Dec 2008

Music Review | Lionheart: Medieval in Both the Sound and the Setting

The early-music vocal sextet Lionheart has always known how to transform the sober work of researching antique texts into vibrant, rich-hued programs. And its audience has come to trust its scholarly fascinations. In the acoustically resonant Medieval ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  25 Dec 2008

Music Review | Gloria Cheng and Osso: Filled With Associations, Harmonic and Otherwise

The program Gloria Cheng played at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday evening was drawn from her most recent Telarc recording, a compilation of the complete (if slim) piano music of Esa-Pekka Salonen and Steven Stucky, along with a Lutoslawski rarity, the ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  24 Dec 2008

Music Review | Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum: Celebrating With Holiday Sounds, From the Medieval to the Modern

The Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series normally focuses on new music and dance. But it traditionally ends its fall season with a holiday concert that mostly looks back at Christmas repertory, ranging from medieval carols and Baroque works to ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  23 Dec 2008

Music Review | The S.E.M. Ensemble: Celebrating the Old New Rather Than the New New

The composer Petr Kotik and his S.E.M. Ensemble take a longer and broader view of the contemporary repertory than most new-music groups. They play their share of recent work, but Mr. Kotik is also fond of reviving decades-old scores, many of them ...

From ALLAN KOZINN, The New York Times,  19 Dec 2008

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