Phillip Glass returns, full of immediate jolts
Philip Glass this week returned to the University of Chicago, where he majored in mathematics and philosophy as an undergraduate 60 years ago. His three-day residency, which included a film...
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Menahem Pressler’s age, nuanced playing earns him an ovation
One of the more unusual recitals of this or any other season occurred Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall. The performer was Menahem Pressler, pianist and founding member of the Beaux...
The Royal Philharmonic didn’t make magic
London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a tour that on Monday brought the ensemble with its principal guest conductor, violinist Pinchas Zukerman, to the Harris Theater...
Lincoln String Quartet lightens new year in launch of 20th chamber festival
Northwestern University's Winter Chamber Music Festival is virtually alone in bringing heat and light to the days starting off the new year, and Friday night at Evanston's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall...
Stephen Hough’s recital can’t overcome the room
Stephen Hough's piano recital Thursday night at Northwestern University's new Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall was, among other things, a vivid reminder of how all performances result from a coming...
A persuasive evening of Mozart, Bach at the Logan Center
Once upon a time, pioneers of historically informed performance made all sorts of proclamations about the "rightness" of their mission. In recent years those were overtaken by a stronger sort...
Israel Philharmonic showmanship takes the reins
Sunday night, for the second time in 20 months, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and music director Zubin Mehta came to Orchestra Hall. Where their 2014 concert presented a single work,...
Andras Schiff a tuneful match with Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn
The second of Andras Schiff's three recitals devoted to the last piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert had poise and fluidity as well as an uncharacteristic caprice. Those...
Music of the Baroque and Bach is all good
Most everything goes right whenever Music of the Baroque presents the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and that happened again Monday night as principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer began the...
Newberry Consort full of spirit, polish with program of rediscoveries
Two decades ago this month the Newberry Consort was among the first historically informed performing groups in the United States to revive the music of Baroque composer Johann Rosenmuller. But...