The composer George Benjamin and the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard met as students. In a new piece, they perform at the keyboard together.
Category: Ninety-Second Street Y
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Wild Up’s Darkness Sounding Festival: The Power of Tuning
The Los Angeles collective Wild Up brought its Darkness Sounding festival to New York, with some of the event’s appeal lost in transit.
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Can a Piano Capture the Grandeur of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Music?
Inon Barnatan has created a solo transcription of “Symphonic Dances” in which he tries “not to imitate an orchestra, but to embody it.”
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A Russian Pianist Speaks Out Against the War From Home
Polina Osetinskaya, a critic of the invasion who has stayed in Moscow even as the government cracks down on dissent, will play a Baroque program in New York.
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Now Celebrated, Julius Eastman’s Music Points to a New Canon
The 92nd Street Y, New York and Wild Up presented a three-concert festival of works by this pioneering Black queer composer. What next?
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Review: A Pianist’s Inheritance Inspires Little Masterpieces
Adam Tendler’s program of works that he commissioned from 16 composers after the death of his father is emotionally involving and musically rewarding.
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Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music
Players from the ensemble came to New York to perform works by Bach, Telemann and Johann Gottlieb Janitsch at the 92nd Street Y, New York.
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Review: A Singer Brings Her Splendid Sound to an Eclectic Recital
The mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges performed at the 92nd Street Y, joined by the pianist Mark Markham and the Catalyst Quartet.
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Review: In ‘Difficult Grace,’ a Cellist Moves Beyond Classical Confines
In his wide-ranging multimedia program at the 92nd Street Y, Seth Parker Woods used different artistic avenues as channels for personal and communal exploration.