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...
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...
