United States Music Mondays – Fauré, Meyer, Schubert: Paul Appleby (tenor), Claremont Trio. Advent Lutheran Church, New York, 19.5.2025. (RP)
Paul Appleby in the premiere of Jessica Meyer’s Shadow Songs at Music Mondays in New York
New York
The Calidore and the unending conversation with Beethoven’s quartets
United States Beethoven: Calidore String Quartet (Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan [violins], Jeremy Berry [viola], Estelle Choi [cello]). Alice Tully Hall, New York, 18.5.2025. (ES-S)
From Bach to Shostakovich and back: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall
United States Bach, Chopin, Shostakovich: Evgeny Kissin (piano). Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, 17.5.2025. (ES-S)
John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Met: relentlessly forward, less inward
United States John Adams, Antony and Cleopatra: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / John Adams (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 12.5.2025. (ES-S)
Elīna Garanča blazes as Amneris in the Met’s final Aida of the season
United States Verdi, Aida: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / John Keenan (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 9.5.2025. (RP)
Thomas Crawford leads the ACO in fascinating performances of Mozart and Beethoven on period instruments
United States Mozart, Beethoven – ‘Magnificently Mozart’: Andrew Schwartz (bassoon), Petra Somlai (fortepiano), American Classical Orchestra / Thomas Crawford (conductor). Alice Tully Hall, New York, 7.5.2025. (RP)
Frederica von Stade joins CMS in the Alice Tully Hall to celebrate Charles Wadsworth
United States R. Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Goldberg – ‘The Wadsworth Legacy’: Soloists. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, New York, 2.5.2025. (RP)
The Takács Quartet at the reopened Frick: lines of continuity
United 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)
