Víkingur Ólafsson had something to prove at the Wigmore Hall. And prove it he did, even if, this time, his Goldberg ...

Two-dimensional and daunting on the printed page, Schoenberg’s atonal music developed depth and character through Uchida’s artful voicing of its singing theme and flickering fantasms. The second piece ...

Still boyish-looking at 54, Andsnes channeled the 22-year-old Edvard Grieg as the Leipzig-trained composer reached for the grandeur of the German Romantic school in his lone sonata for piano. Happily, ...

After the first performance of Sir Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time doubt was expressed about the inclusion of the American Spirituals into the piece. Never before had music associated with an ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and ...

Not once did my attention flag. I also marveled at Beethoven's creative development across the set. Unlike his piano sonatas, symphonies, and quartets, which are spaced more evenly across his career, ...