Ludwig van Beethoven
Mark Morris Debuts at the Met; Don’t Miss Voigt, Bronfman, Pirates
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Mark Morris.
I can’t imagine a better way to shake the late-winter blahs than hearing the great German bass read more »
Butterfly, Barber, and The Cave; Plus, Here’s the Messiah to Beat!
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Pianist Ivo Pogorelich, who may or may not appear at the Metropolitan Museum on Oct. 26.
Strictly speaking, the classical-music season began Sept. read more »
Gentle, Self-Effacing Pianist Displays His Unruffled Focus
Tomokai Hikawa
American-born pianist Stephen Kovacevich has lived in London since 1959.
Who is today’s best American pianist? read more »
Gentle, Self-Effacing Pianist Displays His Unruffled Focus
Who is today’s best American pianist? read more »
Performed Live or Recorded, The High Notes of the Year
Richard Termine
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Looking back on this past year of Manhattan Music columns, I’m struck by a misnomer: The term read more »
Lena Jane Gutman
July 15, 2005 11:19 p.m. 8 pounds St. Luke’s–Roosevelt HospitalNo baby Beethoven for this kid! read more »
'Great' Beethoven in the Raw: Hearing the Hero's Inner Being
Musicologist Richard Taruskin, in his brilliant new Oxford History of Western Music, observes that t read more »
Beethoven Boot Camp For Budding Concert Pianists
From June to September, the Italian seaside village of Positano is a mecca for seekers of dolce far read more »
Enduring and Preeminent: A Multigenerational Piano Trio
In the world of chamber music, the piano trio is an ungainly threesome-an incestuously linked couple read more »
Schumann's Wretched Life-And His Bossy New Champion
Many musicians of my acquaintance have a special soft spot for Robert Schumann. read more »
Happy 200th Birthday! A Vindicating Berlioz Tribute
A few Sundays ago outside Avery Fisher Hall, a man who was hoping to get into a performance of Berli read more »
New Discoveries, Old Masters Sing Out in Year of Reissues
It was the year of the Attic Sale. read more »
Separating the Dangerous From the Dependable
Among the higher modes of artistic endeavor, performances of classical music are perhaps most vulner read more »
