Posted inBeethoven, Ludwig van Classical Music Emerson String Quartet Schubert, Franz Review: The Great Emerson String Quartet Takes Its Final Bow A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid farewell with Beethoven’s Opus 130 and Schubert’s String Quintet. Posted by By David Allen
Posted inClassical Music Deutsch, Helmut Doppelganger (Musical Work) Guth, Claus Kaufmann, Jonas Park Avenue Armory (Manhattan, NY) Schubert, Franz ‘Doppelganger’ Review: A Soldier Confronts His Mortality At the Park Avenue Armory, an imaginative and viscerally shocking staging of Schubert songs from the director Claus Guth and the tenor Jonas Kaufmann. Posted by By Anastasia Tsioulcas
Posted inClassical Music Doppelganger (Musical Work) Guth, Claus Kaufmann, Jonas Levine, Michael Park Avenue Armory (Manhattan, NY) Schubert, Franz Jonas Kaufmann and Friends Take On Schubert at the Armory The tenor Jonas Kaufmann stars in “Doppelganger,” a staging of “Schwanengesang” by Claus Guth, making his New York debut. Posted by By Joshua Barone
Posted inCarnegie Hall Classical Music Danish String Quartet Schubert, Franz Thorvaldsdottir, Anna 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. Posted by By Joshua Barone