A Brooklyn salon for Clara Schumann's 200th birthday

Par Kurt Gottschalk, 16 septembre 2019

Chargement en cours, veuillez patienter...

Voir le listing complet

Critique faite à National Sawdust, Brooklyn, le 13 septembre 2019

Schumann C., 3 Romances for solo piano, Op.11

Price, Memory Mist

Monk, Ellis Island

Simone, Other

Prestini, Limpopo Songs

Mitchell, Other

Monk, Obsolete Objects

Lara Downes, Piano

Bridget Kibbey, Harpe

Simone Dinnerstein, Piano

Magos Herrera, Voix

Soirée Bel/Millepied/Robbins : l’association hasardeuse de Jérôme Bel au canon néoclassique

Laurine Mortha, 11th February

Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris présente deux créations; Tombe, de Jérôme Bel et La Nuit s’achève, de Benjamin Millepied ainsi que Les Variations Goldberg de Jerome Robbins. Mais si les programmes mixtes permettent de mettre en perspective différents points de vue, il faut encore que les œuvres trouvent à se répondre.

***11

Renée Fleming and friends bid adieu to the Emerson String Quartet

Sam Jacobson, 15th October

In one of their final performances, the Emerson String Quartet comes to Cleveland to present André Previn’s Penelope, featuring Renée Fleming and other special guests.

***11

Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach and Glass in Philadelphia

Cameron Kelsall, 7th November

The pianist put a highly individual and unapologetically modern stamp on Bach's Keyboard Concerto no. 7.

****1

Divine Geometry measures up under Kristjan Järvi

Benjamin Poore, 29th November

The LSO served up a lively programme of genre-defying UK premières at the Barbican.

***11

Compelling new opera explores a 300-year-old feminist dream

Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd January

At the center of this production is the centuries-old verse of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the wondrous voice of Magos Herrera and a richly realized telling of the quest for knowledge.

****1

The Knights on the eve of war at Carnegie Hall

Kurt Gottschalk, 29th February

An evening on the outskirts of war treat Ravel, Brecht and Weill, Bob Dylan and Chico Buarque and a Du Yun premiere with spirit and revelry.

***11

Plus de critiques...

Kurt Gottschalk

Kurt Gottschalk is a journalist and author based in New York City. His writings on contemporary and classical music, jazz and improvisation have been published in outlets throughout Europe and America and he has two volumes of short fiction to his name. He produced and hosted the Miniature Minotaurs radio programme on WFMU and currently hosts Afternoon New Music on WKCR.

A centuries-spanning salon in Brooklyn for Clara Schumann's 200th birthday