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Displaying all articles tagged:
Classical Music Review
classical-music review
Mar. 18, 2024
Klaus Mäkelä Brings Back the Wild Streak in Stravinsky
The young Finnish conductor had even his own orchestra stomping with enthusiasm.
By
Justin Davidson
classical-music review
May 22, 2023
At the Philharmonic, Dudamel’s First Is Mahler’s Ninth
He delivers a showy 2-D performance of a 3-D symphony.
By
Justin Davidson
classical-music review
Dec. 16, 2022
Geffen Hall Has Found Its Sound
It’s finally what it ought to have been all along — and it’s so clear, it may be a little too revealing for some conductors.
By
Justin Davidson
classical-music review
Apr. 8, 2022
A
St. Matthew Passion
That Speaks Even to Nonbelievers
At Carnegie Hall, Bernard Labadie and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s brought out the drama in the Bach.
By
Justin Davidson
classical-music review
Feb. 9, 2022
Rediscovering a Depression-Era Composer Who Sought Unbridled Joy
The Philadelphia Orchestra brings an underappreciated Florence Price symphony to Carnegie Hall.
By
Justin Davidson
classical-music review
Oct. 7, 2021
Carnegie Reopens With Bernstein, Beethoven, and a Tribute to Those 7 p.m. Shouts
After 572 silent days.
By
Justin Davidson
new york philharmonic
Apr. 15, 2021
The Philharmonic’s First Concert Back Brought Me Panic and Solace
At the Shed, Caroline Shaw’s
Entr’acte
and Strauss’s
Metamorphosen.
By
Justin Davidson
music review
Oct. 24, 2020
A Concert Review! From a Cemetery. (This Is Not a Metaphor.)
At Brooklyn’s Green-Wood, a moving performance that roved among the crypts.
By
Justin Davidson
classical music
June 6, 2019
The Met Opera’s Yannick Nézet-Séguin Has Found His Footing
After a few years adrift, the company has found its sheriff — or maybe
shepherd
is a better word.
By
Justin Davidson
classical-music review
Sept. 25, 2018
Opera Review: The Met Brings Back
Samson et Dalila,
With Just Enough
Fromage
“To describe it as gaudy and silly is a compliment, not a complaint.”
By
Justin Davidson
classical-music review
Sept. 21, 2018
What’s Opera, Jaap? Van Zweden’s Opening Night as the Philharmonic’s New Leader
New music by Ashley Fure, old music by Stravinsky, and a Wagner chaser.
By
Justin Davidson
music review
Aug. 20, 2018
Music Review: Leonard Bernstein Is Paid Half-Hearted Tribute at Tanglewood
Andris Nelsons conducted as if he would rather be at home watching TV. Some music can endure an uncommitted performance; Bernstein’s can’t.
By
Justin Davidson
May 9, 2018
Beethoven’s
Fidelio
and Mahler’s Tenth, With the Conventions Tossed Away
Beethoven’s only opera, reinterpreted in the era of mass incarceration.
By
Justin Davidson
classical music review
May 1, 2018
Shostakovich, With Bright L.A. Glare, at Lincoln Center
Dudamel brings out the symphony’s loudest, brightest aspects.
By
Justin Davidson
classical music review
Sept. 20, 2017
The New York Philharmonic’s New Music Director: Thrilling to Exhaustion
Jaap van Zweden brings the excitement, over and over and over.
By
Justin Davidson
new music
Sept. 22, 2015
Music Review: The ‘Deadpan Lunacy’ of Simon Steen-Andersen at Miller Theater
Rube Goldberg composition.
By
Justin Davidson
classical music
Apr. 8, 2015
On 50 Years of Meredith Monk’s Excellent Weirdness
She has been carrying out a slow revolution, with no end in sight.
By
Justin Davidson
classical music review
Jan. 23, 2015
Classical Music Review: The Prototype Festival
Can it grow without disappointing those who treasure it most?
By
Justin Davidson
classical music review
May 7, 2014
Davidson on John Luther Adams’s Carnegie Hall Debut
“An utterly original, totally immersive sound world.”
By
Justin Davidson
classical music review
Sept. 18, 2013
Davidson:
Anna Nicole
the Opera Is a Big Bust
“The American idioms appear to have sprung from a phrase book edited on another planet.”
By
Justin Davidson
classical music
Aug. 3, 2013
Justin Davidson on the MoMA’s First Sound Art Exhibition
The artists in
Soundings
all seem to live in isolation booths.
By
Justin Davidson