Every so often, a performance hits you right in the solar plexus. That’s how it was for me with Sunday afternoon’s performance of Schubert’s great song cycle Winterreise. Presented in the Dallas Opera ...
The Bard Conservatory of Music presents the seventh season of the Kurtág Festival, “Signs, Games & Messages,” honoring Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s 100th birthday.
Young German-English baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu were a sensation of San Francisco Performances' 2022-23 season. "Dynamic contrasts, from stormy fortissimos to whispery ...
There were passages of seriousness: Gustav Mahler’s dolorous opener, leavened by the sunny and saucy Alma Mahler that followed, and Reynaldo Hahn’s touchingly ingenuous take on Bach, “À Chloris”.
The usual audience response at the end of Franz Schubert’s hourlong song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey) is stunned silence — then amazement at having experienced something special. Setting 24 ...