Edward Sava-Segal

What remains beyond silence: Kissin and friends play Shostakovich in New York

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United StatesUnited States ‘Kissin and Friends’ – Shostakovich: Evgeny Kissin (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Gidon Kremer (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola). Carnegie Hall, New York, 28.5.2025. (ES-S)

Pianist Evgeny Kissin and cellist Gautier Capuçon © Chris Lee Evgeny Kissin & Gidon Kremer © Chris Lee

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John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Met: relentlessly forward, less inward

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United StatesUnited States John Adams, Antony and Cleopatra: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / John Adams (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 12.5.2025. (ES-S)

Gerald Finley (Antony) and Julia Bullock (Cleopatra) in Antony and Cleopatra © Karen Almond/Met Opera

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Mariotti illuminates the in-between at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

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ItalyItaly Maggio Musicale Festival 2025 – Mozart, Stravinski, Poulenc: Emöke Baráth (soprano), Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Michele Mariotti (conductor). Sala Zubin Mehta, Teatro del Maggio Musicale, Florence, 8.5.2025. (ES-S)

Michele Mariotti conducting the Maggio Musicale Orchestra © Michele Monasta

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The Takács Quartet at the reopened Frick: lines of continuity

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United StatesUnited States Spring Music Festival – Beethoven, Janáček, Brahms: Takács Quartet (Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes [violins], Richard O’Neill [viola], András Fejér [cello]), Jeremy Denk (piano). Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium, Frick Collection, New York, 1.5.2025. (ES-S)

The Takács Quartet © George Koelle

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