Brahms, Johannes

Review: Philharmonic Returns to Classics, at Its Own Expense

Led by Manfred Honeck, the orchestra all too quickly revisited Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and, with Vikingur Olafsson, Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Review: Daniel Barenboim Misses His American Swan Song

The ailing conductor was to have led the Staatskapelle Berlin in Brahms’s symphonies at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin jumped in.

By Zachary Woolfe

Beethoven, Ludwig van Brahms, Johannes Carnegie Hall Classical Music Dresdner Kreuzchor Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Nagano, Kent Sean Shepherd Vogler, Jan

Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall

After decades away, the musicians, led by Kent Nagano, were back in the United States to perform works by Sean Shepherd, along with Beethoven and Brahms.

By Anastasia Tsioulcas

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The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner

Christian Thielemann led the storied orchestra in three concerts at Carnegie Hall, including a revelatory performance of Strauss’s “An Alpine Symphony.”

By Zachary Woolfe