South Korean keyboard phenom Yunchan Lim clearly has the scintillating virtuosity of Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin at his fingertips. But Lim — after rocketing to worldwide stardom in 2022 at age 18 ...
The Newberry Consort used the Valentine’s Day weekend to present a concert which examined the many aspects of love. This ...
During the passagework of his own sargam composition in Teentaal, Shehnai being an 1.5 octave instrument, Vikas displayed expertise in the upper octave ‘pa’ to access ‘dha’. Noticeable ...
O Fortuna!', one of the most popular and exhilarating choral movements in the Western canon becomes the finale to Pacific ...
Maestro Chung, incidentally, used no score. Vengerov played this first movement with nobility and virtuosity. Was his passagework polished, as of yore? It was plenty good. Vengerov issued some sweet ...
Even though it travels to fortissimo and occasionally requires fast passagework from Apkalna, the oceanic feel of the movement drew a contrast with the clicking-along first. Salonen notes that the ...
Wang caught on as the motif was melodically and harmonically enriched in ringing chords and chromatic passagework, the soloist and ensemble in fruitful accord. Everyone seemed to hear each other ...
So, too, the eerie plays of light and shade in “Le Gibet.” His take on “Scarbo” was vibrant and extroverted, the low-tessitura passagework ringing with ominous authority. For its part, Miroirs offered ...