Bachtrack logo

Performer: Michael Stern

Latest reviewsSee more...

Hindemith's “American requiem” from the Kansas City Symphony

The composer's powerful When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd anchored a thought-provoking program led by Michael Stern.
****1
Read more

Time of transition at the Kansas City Symphony

Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony © Eric Williams
Gil Shaham is the outstanding soloist in Saint-Saëns' Third Violin Concerto as a new season gets under way. 
****1
Read more

Cool Brahms from Midori and the Kansas City Symphony

A refined but unromantic rendition of Brahms' Violin Concerto by Midori following compelling account of Anna Clyne's This Midnight Hour and Debussy's La Mer
***11
Read more

Randall Goosby at the Kansas City Symphony

Goosby's decisive Bruch strikes the right tone in a programme which includes the world premiere – of sorts – of Stuart Murray Turnbull's Odyssey
****1
Read more

Zukerman returns to Kansas City to celebrate Beethoven and Isaac Stern

Janáček's The Fiddler’s Child and Mozart's 39th Symphony complete a varied program under Michael Stern.
***11
Read more

Emanuel Ax joins the Kansas City Symphony

A sprightly program of Beethoven, anti-Beethoven and Bartók.
****1
Read more