by Henry Schlinger | Nov 15, 2023 | Classical Music and Opera |
On Nov. 12, as part of the Sundays with Coleman 2023-2024 chamber music series at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium, the Castalian String Quartet performed a concert of three very demanding works: the Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata,” by the Czech composer Leoš...
by Henry Schlinger | Jun 6, 2023 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured, Spotlight |
On Saturday night, Gustavo Dudamel, the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, continued his return to conducting the orchestra this season not with a concert of new works, but with a return to the traditional. On the program were three late works by Mozart:...
by Henry Schlinger | May 13, 2023 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured, Spotlight |
On Wednesday, the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall a live version of his most recent recording on Deutsche Grammophon, “Mozart and His Contemporaries.” Ólafsson wrote the following about the recording: “This is the period...
by Henry Schlinger | Apr 25, 2023 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured, Spotlight |
The French pianist Hélène Grimaud gave a hypnotic performance on April 19 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, playing pieces by the three—actually—four Bs: Beethoven, Brahms and Bach/Busoni. Grimaud’s concert wasn’t just a bunch of pianistic crowd-pleasers thrown...
by Henry Schlinger | Mar 13, 2023 | Classical Music and Opera |
On Sunday evening as the 95th Annual Academy Awards were underway in Hollywood, the Russian-born German pianist Igor Levit performed a recital of intense artistic expression featuring the last three of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas before a crowd at Walt Disney...