Claire Chase’s “Density 2036,” an undertaking to commission a new flute repertoire, reached its 10th installment with a multi-concert retrospective.
Category: Carnegie Hall
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Claire Chase Is Changing How People Think of the Flute
She is marking her 24-year effort to expand the instrument’s repertoire with performances, including a Carnegie Hall series, as well as a box set and a new fellowship.
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Review: After 55 Years, the Helsinki Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall
The conductor Susanna Mälkki brought her orchestra to New York in something of a farewell to her tenure in Finland.
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Illuminating Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, a Pinnacle of Russian Sacred Rep
Steven Fox and the Clarion Choir are tending to a less well-known part of the composer’s canon for his 150th birthday: His choral works.
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Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered
William Christie’s early-music ensemble, once a staple at Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, finds a new home in Carnegie Hall.
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The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music
Over two nights at Carnegie Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented the New York premieres of works by Thierry Escaich and Thomas Adès.
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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.
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Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert
The group returned to Zankel Hall for the latest installment of its “Doppelgänger” project, featuring a premiere by Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
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Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital
Alisa Weilerstein brought her new project, a mix tape of new works and movements from Bach’s cello suites, to Zankel Hall.
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Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘Vespers’ Pray for an Earth in Crisis
John Luther Adams’s latest premiere, “Vespers of the Blessed Earth,” is a tear-splattered departure from his usual style.
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Review: Lawrence Brownlee Makes Room for Black Composers
Often seen onstage as a star of bel canto opera, this tenor crafted a recital of works by Robert Owens, Margaret Bonds and their successors.
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‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music
Matthias Pintscher speaks about Boulez’s “Dérive 2,” which the composer’s old ensemble performs in New York this weekend.