Marking a trio of anniversaries, Debussy, Bernstein and their 25th milestone, the Ulster Youth Orchestra are welcomed home from their celebratory European tour with the warmest Irish greetings.
The Minnesota Orchestra’s visit offered a chance to hear Gershwin’s Piano Concerto and Ives’ Symphony no. 2, though the former suffered somewhat from an absence of spark.
Revelling in the luscious orchestrations and sumptuous melodies, it was a rare treat to bask in such obvious delight from both conductor and orchestra.
In the year of the centenary of Claude Debussy's death, pianist Denis Kozhukhin gave a heady and colourful performance of music by Debussy and George Gerswhin, a composer deeply influenced by his French counterpart.
Hannigan plays with expectations, opening with a single spotlight after a complete stage blackout to dramatic effect, and I am pretty sure she was rocking slippers on stage.
Two promising talents tacke Beethoven: China's Ke Ma impresses in PC4, Hungary's Szüts impresses as a composer with his cadenza for PC1. Tamás Gál and the Miskolc Symphony provide strong support.
On 4th October, the Philadelphia Orchestra opened the Carnegie Hall season with an all 20th-century American program featuring George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein.
Fanfares and percussion: the NYOS play an all American programme of Gershwin, Copland and welcome back NYOS alumnus Colin Currie to play Andrew Norman’s Switch.
Milhaud reported “a spirit of carefree gaiety reigned” in 1920s Paris, a spirit Marcela Roggeri and François Chaplin's varied programme aimed to evoke.
A superb An American in Paris, inspired by the 1951 film of the same name; classic Gershwin songs enveloped by vibrant choreography, in a fast-paced show.
Oskar Schlemmer's arresting designs for The Triadic Ballet proved one of several high points in Bayerisches Staatsballett II's mixed bill at the Hong Kong Arts Festival.
While passion, supreme technical mastery, and inspiration all come to mind watching a celebrity like Ma perform, camaraderie, perhaps, is the best word for this concert.
The Bruckner Orchester Linz’s Chicago appearance was centered on American music with music director Dennis Russell Davies and vocalist Angélique Kidjo, rounded off by a Zemlinsky song cycle based on African-American poetry.
Meticulous intonation, seamless phrasing and oozing charm, Chanticleer delivered a wonderful entertaining concert in a programme that stretched nearly 600 years.
This unusual program had the unlikely pairing of Schoenberg's Piano Concerto and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, for which Kirill Gerstein was a brilliant soloist.
To open the new season, the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot were joined by star mezzo Joyce DiDonato, whose performance sent listeners over the top and over the rainbow.
Ludovic Morlot led the SSO in a première by Anna Clyne plus familiar repertoire made fresh, spotlighting a delectable interpretation from Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Gershwin's piano concerto.
Andris Nelsons returned to his Shostakovich cycle with an easy-going Sixth Symphony, followed by an exhilarating Suite for Variety Orchestra. Jean-Yves Thibaudet delighted audiences with Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F.
Brodsky String Quartet: A master of precision, nuances and moods introduced the Turkish audience to South American contemporary composers. What an enchantment!
Marin Alsop made belated subscription debut with the CSO Thanksgiving weekend with a varied program contrasting 20th and 21st century British and American works with Dvořák's tragic Seventh Symphony.
From the American national anthem to An American in Paris and back to New York City for West Side Story with Joshua Bell, Stravinksy’s Firebird stuck out as the most remarkable piece on the program.
Broadway is turning movies into musicals at the drop of a top hat, but none can touch this irresistible reworking of the 1951 Gene Kelly extravaganza, An American in Paris. They should just hand the Tonys to Christopher Wheeldon, Bob Crowley, and Robert Fairchild now.
She made cynics swoon and skeptics burst: Jessye Norman, along with pianist Mark Markham, serenaded eager listeners with love songs from the Great American Songbook and 20th-century France.
The New York Philharmonic kicked off 2015 with the music of George Gershwin, led by British conductor Bramwell Tovey and joined by vocalists Norm Lewis and Dianne Reeves.
