Inon Barnatan, poet, intellectual virtuoso
When cellist Alisa Weilerstein made her Chicago recital debut two years ago, the playing of her partner, Israeli-born New York pianist Inon Barnatan, was so sensitive that you often wondered...
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Review: Pollini revisits his successes with Schumann, Chopin
Maurizio Pollini, one of the most celebrated living pianists, came to Orchestra Hall on Sunday afternoon to delight an adoring audience with a program of few surprises. Gone were the...
Concert review: Music of the Baroque season opener
Music of the Baroque began its season Sunday night at Evanston's Pick-Staiger Concert Hall with a program that held not a single note of Baroque music. Such forays into Classical...
The Takacs Quartet benefitted from red-blooded humanity
The Takacs Quartet and pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin opened the chamber music season at Orchestra Hall Thursday night with an irresistible display of how to perform Belgian and French masterworks. The...
Concert review: Baroque Band performs Handel, Vivaldi
Baroque Band began its eighth season Sunday night in a program that only a relatively short time ago would have been considered a curiosity. Star of the evening was Xavier...
Concert review: eighth blackbird at the MCA
The Italian form of theater known as Commedia dell'arte long has influenced visual artists and composers, and Friday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art the sextet known as eighth...
Concert review: Portland Youth Philharmonic at Grant Park
The 80th anniversary season of the Grant Park Orchestra is unusual not only for the two commissions that will premiere in August but also the two guest ensembles invited to...
Concert review: Emanuel Ax Brahms Project at Orchestra Hall
Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall, Emanuel Ax concluded his three-recital "Brahms Project" with a program that was simplicity itself: six Brahms masterpieces surrounding two contemporary commissions. The Brahms works represented...
Review: A splendid feast from Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf used to call them lark's tongues, those musical delicacies so rare that if you encountered them at all they appeared only sparingly on menus of more common...
Dufour’s brilliance shines in CSO commission
Wednesday night's "Afterwork Masterworks" concert, presenting two-thirds of this week's Chicago Symphony Orchestra subscription program, offered listeners at Orchestra Hall something new and something old that followed different patterns equally...