Performers who tackle Schubert’s piano sonatas need to understand how to bring out the layering of the composer’s musical ideas. Paul Lewis did that in spades in his concluding recitals in Hong Kong.
The Santa Barbara Symphony’s 70th Anniversary season continues with Beethoven Dreams, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 15, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 16, preceded
How a New Year’s Concert Was Composed
To ring in 2021, the Vienna Philharmonic is drawing on the past and giving fans a chance to be present, if not in person, for waltzes, marches and more.
Riccardo Muti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic during the 2018 New Year’s Concert. The latest edition of the traditional concert will be performed under his baton as well.Credit.Hans Punz/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
By Ginanne Brownell
Dec. 23, 2020
While there won’t be an in-house audience for the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert this time around, classical music lovers across the globe will still be able to experience it and applaud the musicians together.