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Author Archive | David Hurwitz
Brahms’ German Requiem Premiered at Carnegie Hall
CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK, MARCH 2, 2020 OK, it wasn’t exactly THAT kind of premiere, but it was the first performance of the German Requiem in a new critical edition by Brahms scholar Michael Musgrave, who contributed a thoughtful note to the program booklet about how this version differs from the one we normally hear. […]
Conference Report–Music in the Disruptive Era: the Digital, the Internet, and Beyond
Organized by the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca Lucca, Italy; 14-16 December 2019—The impact of the Internet and digital technologies on the way the music is created, disseminated, and consumed is impossible to assess fully. Because we live in the middle of this “disruptive era,” the full impacts of the new technologies and […]
Editorial: Classical Music’s Ten Dirtiest Secrets
Classical Music’s Ten Dirtiest Secrets Considering how culturally valuable and self-evidently important classical music is supposed to be, its proponents are a surprisingly defensive group. At performing arts organizations, press departments fret that the slightest negative comment about an artist might attract public notice. What little marketing that takes place with respect to recordings always […]
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal’s Sensitive, Detailed Mozart and Bruckner
Friday, November 22, 2019: Carnegie Hall, New York The Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal presented a program of Mozart and Bruckner on its first U.S. tour, featuring the overture and stellar mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in the two big arias for high voice from the former’s La Clemenza di Tito, and the latter’s “Romantic” Symphony (No. 4). […]
Orchestra of St. Luke’s Plays Bach and Mendelssohn
Thursday, October 17, 2009 8pm. Carnegie Hall, NY Bach and Mendelssohn always go well together, the one having been a major influence on the other, and so it proved Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall, when the Orchestra of St. Luke’s presented two Bach keyboard concertos framed by two of Mendelssohn’s most popular orchestral works, The […]
Cult Conductors: A New Review Series
We live in an era when more recordings of more music by more artists are available than at any time before. In particular, the release of Big Boxes of live performances, radio broadcasts, and even commercial recordings now in the public domain, have given collectors the opportunity to sample extensively the output of conductors whose […]
Crumb at 90 Part II: Ghosts, Angels, and Music for a Summer Evening
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: April 16, 2019, Alice Tully Hall (New York City) All Crumb Program: The Ghosts of Alhambra (Spanish Songbook I) for Voice, Guitar, and Percussion; Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) for Electric String Quartet; Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) for Two Amplified Pianos and Percussion […]
Simone Young Shines in Mahler’s Sixth at the NY Phil
Friday, April 12, 11am, David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, NY It’s no small task to step in at the last minute and take over a symphonic megalith like Mahler’s Sixth, but conductor Simone Young did just that when New York Philharmonic Music Director Jaap van Zweden bowed out due to injury (I’ll bet you didn’t […]
The Juilliard Quartet Shines at Alice Tully Hall
New York. Alice Tully Hall: November 19, 2018. 7:30pm Program: Beethoven: String Quartet in D major, Op. 18 No. 3; Beecher: One Hundred Years Grows Shorter Over Time; Dvorák: “American” String Quartet This evening’s program featured the Juilliard Quartet in its latest incarnation, with new first violinist Areta Zhulla. Certainly the ensemble’s famed rhythmic precision […]
