by Henry Schlinger | Oct 12, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera |
On Thursday night, you didn’t have to go to London to hear the London Philharmonic Orchestra. You didn’t even have to go to Walt Disney Concert Hall. That’s because the LPO performed at The Soraya on the campus of California State University Northridge. The Soraya has...
by Henry Schlinger | Aug 9, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured, Spotlight |
The latest in Reference Recordings’ Pittsburgh Live! series with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra features two works: the monumental Symphony No. 7 in E major by Bruckner and a PSO commissioned work celebrating the 60th birthday of...
by Henry Schlinger | May 14, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera |
Yuja Wang made her annual pilgrimage to Walt Disney Concert Hall on Mother’s Day, and, no surprise, her recital was a sensation. It was visually and sonically spectacular. The two halves of her program represented a study in contrasts. The first half consisted of...
by Henry Schlinger | May 3, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera |
The Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson gave a performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations BWV 988 for the ages before an almost-packed house at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Wednesday night. It was clear from his performance that the 40-year-old...
by Henry Schlinger | Apr 28, 2024 | Classical Music and Opera |
On Saturday evening at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 43-year-old American conductor Karina Cannellakis led the LA Phil in a program of works of Beethoven, Mozart and Bartok. The first work on the program was the Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43 by...
