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Jaap van Zweden, the conductor, and Igor Levit, the pianist, are cut from the same cloth. Each is intensely devoted to music. Intensely. Each is disciplined, no-nonsense, bracing. I have often thought ...

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The 'Bach for Two and Three Pianos' concert makes for one helluva evening’s entertainment, but Shapira takes the presentation ...

There is this idea that creativity comes from limitation. Constraint was a tenet of the minimalists. Ernest Hemingway was challenged to write a story in six words and produced, famously, “For sale: ...

Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...

Classical concert lore is full of great pinch-hitting stories. For example, stardom found a young Leonard Bernstein when he stepped in for conductor Bruno Walter on short notice, and teenage pianist ...

Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...

Rising star pianist Arsha Kaviani took one of classical music’s most formidable pieces of music, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2, and set himself a solo challenge of a mind-blowing symphonic scale.

Sometimes old recipes, newly tweaked, can yield astonishing results. Consider the concerto: It might be a 400-year-old formula, calling for a soloist to perform with — and often battle against — an ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook By David Allen and Zachary Woolfe The attention of classical music in America on Thursday was divided between the opposite coasts.