Igor Levit played selections from his latest album, “Life,” in a probing and poignant recital at Zankel Hall.
The Israeli Chamber Project gave a riveting program, intelligently conceived. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, though, was underwhelming.
Nico Muhly's “Marnie,” Rufus Wainwright in Toronto and Schubert were some of the highlights.
“In a way, he’s a composer,” a collaborator says of the French filmmaker, whose latest work, “The Image Book,” recently had its New York premiere.
Polyrhythms run through his music like a compulsive streak. They’re what give his works tension and majesty.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique played two thrilling programs of the composer’s not-at-all-soothing music.
The virtuoso Gary Graffman, the teacher of Yuja Wang and Lang Lang, celebrated his birthday with musical royalty (and a grand-piano “Happy Birthday to You”).
The virtuoso Gary Graffman, the teacher of Yuja Wang and Lang Lang, celebrated his birthday with musical royalty (and a grand-piano “Happy Birthday to You”).
Igor Levit's new album, composer news and the San Francisco Symphony were among the highlights.
Igor Levit discusses his album “Life,” which he recorded in the aftermath of his best friend’s death, ahead of his recital at Zankel Hall next week.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
David Robertson conducted this 1996 piece by a composer who’s the subject of a two-week series at the start of the orchestra’s season.
Ms. Chin, a bold, inventive composer who has been a favorite with the orchestra in recent years, was awarded the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music.
Our chief classical music critic surveys the New York Philharmonic’s Nightcap and Sound On series, and a celebration of the composer Louis Andriessen.
Both the San Francisco Symphony and the New York Philharmonic performed the 1931 Violin Concerto this week, as Carnegie Hall began its season.
At Carnegie Hall on Friday, the tenor brought to life a moment just before popular music forked off from the classical tradition.
Saturday night’s performance of Mr. Norman’s “Sustain” by the Los Angeles Philharmonic showed off a thorough inversion of the composer’s established style.
A choral work on the elevated park, a dance set to Bach and a rising conductor were among the highlights.
In 1997, the violinist made an audacious debut with an album of Bach sonatas and partitas. Now she's back with the rest.
The Avery Fisher Prize has been awarded to one of the great champions of new music by composers like John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Oliver Knussen.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Andrew Norman’s symphony-length “Sustain” will have its high-profile premiere in a concert to open the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s centennial season.
An interview with the conductor Nicholas McGegan, who has spent the past three decades making the West Coast a period-instrument power.
Introducing and explaining contemporary classical music is essential work. Nightcap, a new series by the New York Philharmonic, is a good start.
Daniil Trifonov's Beethoven, a Metropolitan Opera diva's "La Bohème" and a quartet's debut recording were among the highlights.
On Thursday, the orchestra presented the premiere of Conrad Tao’s “Everything Must Go,” intended as a curtain-raiser for Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony.
With a new recording and a two-year, 36-city world tour, the classical musician of our civic life is pairing art and community action.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Readers survey the conducting landscape in the United States.