Brahms, Johannes

Review: Daniel Barenboim Misses His American Swan Song

By Zachary Woolfe December 1, 2023Barenboim, Daniel, Brahms, Johannes, Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Music, Nezet-Seguin, Yannick, Staatskapelle Berlin

The ailing conductor was to have led the Staatskapelle Berlin in Brahms’s symphonies at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin jumped in.

Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall

By Anastasia Tsioulcas April 23, 2023Beethoven, Ludwig van, Brahms, Johannes, Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Dresdner Kreuzchor, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, Music, Nagano, Kent, Sean Shepherd, Vogler, Jan

After decades away, the musicians, led by Kent Nagano, were back in the United States to perform works by Sean Shepherd, along with Beethoven and Brahms.

The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner

By Zachary Woolfe March 6, 2023An Alpine Symphony (Musical Work), Brahms, Johannes, Bruckner, Anton, Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Music, Schoenberg, Arnold, Strauss, Richard, Thielemann, Christian, Vienna Philharmonic

Christian Thielemann led the storied orchestra in three concerts at Carnegie Hall, including a revelatory performance of Strauss’s “An Alpine Symphony.”