Carnegie Hall

Review: Thomas Adès Meets the Profound Beauty of Schubert

By Joshua Barone April 19, 2024Ades, Thomas, Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Danish String Quartet, Music, Schubert, Franz, Wreath for Franz Schubert (Musical Work)

The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by Adès.

At Carnegie Hall, Weimar Is Irresistible but Vaguely Defined

By Zachary Woolfe April 14, 2024Antheil, George, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brecht, Bertolt, Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Cleveland Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, Gruber, H K, Hindemith, Paul, Knights, The, Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, Krenek, Ernst, Lemper, Ute, Mahler, Gustav, Music, Schoenberg, Arnold, Stravinsky, Igor, Vienna Philharmonic, Weill, Kurt, Zemlinsky, Alexander

Carnegie’s intermittently illuminating festival “Fall of the Weimar Republic” has suffered from interjections of too much standard repertory.

Yunchan Lim, Jan Lisiecki and Alexander Malofeev at Carnegie

By Zachary Woolfe March 20, 2024Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Lim, Yunchan, Lisiecki, Jan, Malofeev, Alexander, Music

Jan Lisiecki, 28, is the elder statesman alongside Alexander Malofeev and Yunchan Lim in a trio of recent recital debuts at the hall.

‘Winterreise’ Review: Hiding a Roiling Grief

By Oussama Zahr March 17, 2024Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Music, Padmore, Mark, Schubert, Franz, Uchida, Mitsuko, Winterreise (Musical Work)

On Friday, the pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the tenor Mark Padmore illuminated the bleakness of Schubert’s genre-defining song cycle at Zankel Hall.

Review: Igor Levit Wields Orchestral Power With Just a Piano

By Oussama Zahr March 8, 2024Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Levit, Igor, Music

For his latest Carnegie Hall appearance, Levit played solo piano transcriptions of symphonic works by Mahler and Beethoven.

Vienna Philharmonic and Franz Welser-Möst Return to Carnegie

By Joshua Barone March 4, 2024Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Music, Vienna Philharmonic, Welser-Most, Franz

Franz Welser-Möst, who stands at the top of this storied orchestra’s roster of conductors, led three meaty programs at Carnegie Hall over the weekend.

Review: Yunchan Lim Plays Chopin at Carnegie Hall

By Zachary Woolfe February 22, 2024Carnegie Hall, Chopin, Frederic, Classical Music, Lim, Yunchan, Music

For his Carnegie debut, the fast-rising Yunchan Lim gave a confident and dazzling performance of Chopin’s 27 fiendishly difficult études.

Jaap van Zweden Bids Farewell, and Other Classical Highlights

By Zachary Woolfe February 20, 2024Adams, John (1947- ), Ades, Thomas, Canellakis, Karina, Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, DiDonato, Joyce, Dudamel, Gustavo, El Nino (Opera), Fire Shut Up in My Bones (Opera), Fleming, Renee, Grigorian, Asmik, Gubaidulina, Sofia, Lemmons, Kasi, Levit, Igor, Madama Butterfly (Opera), Metropolitan Opera, Music, New York Philharmonic, O'Hara, Kelli, Opera, Puts, Kevin

The Philharmonic’s maestro ends his tenure, Igor Levit comes to Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera takes a chance on reviving two recent hits.

Two Pianists Make a Life Out of an Intimate Art Form

By Hugh Morris February 10, 2024Carnegie Hall, Classical Music, Dating and Relationships, Music, Royal College of Music (London, England), Russia

Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy, partners onstage and off, began to play as a duo in school. Now, they are dedicating their careers to it.