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...
by Henry Schlinger | Mar 7, 2023 | Classical Music and Opera |
On Sunday evening, the Glendale Youth Orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Henry Shin, performed a concert titled “Exploring the Cosmos” in the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale. The program included works by Richard Strauss, Franz Joseph Haydn and Gustav...
by Henry Schlinger | Feb 7, 2023 | Classical Music and Opera |
On Saturday night, the German conductor and composer, Matthias Pintscher conducted the LA Phil in three works, Masaot/Clocks Without Hands by the Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, the Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, with the Taiwanese/Australian violinist...
by Henry Schlinger | Feb 4, 2023 | Classical Music and Opera |
On Wednesday night, the renowned pianist Emanuel Ax held spellbound a packed hall of devout fans at Walt Disney Concert Hall with a program of works mostly by Schubert. Ax performed the Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664, Op. posth. 120 by Schubert, Four Songs by...
by Henry Schlinger | Oct 29, 2022 | Classical Music and Opera, Featured, Spotlight |
Delos records has released two new CDs of contemporary music, broadly defined. The music spans 100 years and dates from the 1920s to 2022. Shapeshifter features the music of the German-Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, who lived from 1894 to...