Chicago Classical Review

     According to economists, Finland’s principal exports may be engineering machinery and products made from the trees in…

    There are plenty of issues to gripe about in Chicago—crime, traffic congestion, pervasive corruption,…

 At first glance, the second of Lang Lang’s two Ravinia concerts appeared as the dessert to Sunday’s main…

 “Mad for Medea” could be the marketing hook for Chicago Opera Theater over the next three seasons, as the company…

All vocal aficionados attend performances hoping for one of those rare nights when lightning strikes and an…

A decade ago, an obscure 16-year-old Chinese pianist made a last-minute substitution for Andre Watts in an overstuffed…

    The pleasures were both expected and unexpected at the Grant Park Music Festival Saturday night.

     As a prelude…

For many artists, a performance of one of Schubert’s song cycles is something to prepare for and then…

During Christoph Eschenbach’s tenure as music director of the Ravinia Festival, it was a common criticism that Ravinia virtually ignored…

Eclecticism has always been the hallmark of French-Canadian pianist-composer Marc-André Hamelin, who may well have the broadest repertoire of any…