Olga Kern Returns to OC with a Winning Tchaikovsky
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One cannot say enough good things about Ms. Kern’s playing, in which clarity of line is in no way clouded by passionate expression and outbursts.
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A Triumphant Post-Covid Return to Disney Hall with Korngold and Brahms
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A most uplifting, satisfying performance, attended by a fully-masked and vaccinated audience at near capacity who enthusiastically applauded at the end of every movement.
Read MoreAngela Hewitt in Beverly Hills, a Hopeless Romantic for Bach
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Her piano for this recital was a Steinway, a warmer, more romantic-sounding instrument than the Fazioli, all the better for conveying the romanticism of Bach.
Read MoreRussian Week 2: Electric Partnership of MTT and Daniil Trifonov
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To describe 28-year-old Daniil Trifonov as classical music’s brightest young star pianist is in a sense to do him a disservice, for he is above all an artist.
Read MoreA Shockingly Good Russian Week with Dudamel and Pianist Seong-Jin Cho
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Cho, born in 1994, commands the technical brilliance and expressive power to rival and, in some cases, top the best of them. His K-pop star good looks did not hurt, either.
Read MoreUnder Salonen, Colburn School Orchestra Plays Wagner Like Gods
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Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen proved a superb colorist in this music. He reading was dark, tense, brooding in the narrative, and soft, warm, radiant in the Winterstürme.
Read MoreAmateur Orchestra Impresses in All-Beethoven Concert
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Vicente Chamber Orchestra's musicians are lawyers, doctors, tech executives, etc. – serious dilettantes who dream of playing in an orchestra.
Read MoreLA Phil Hits High and Low Notes with Wayward Tchaikovsky and Explosive Rite of Spring
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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s “unique interpretation” of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s explosive The Rite of Spring.
Read MoreA Frenchman In America Plays Gershwin and Ravel
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Hélène Grimaud was the soloist in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G-Major. She brought her own individual stamp of crisp articulation and unsentimental phrasing to the piece
Read MoreConductor Simone Young Brings High Drama to Britten and Strauss
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To Los Angeles, conductor Simone Young brought her keen sense of drama and theatricality to the music of Britten and Strauss.
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