Chicago Classical Review

A vibrant musical city needs vigorous small groups as well as big international ensembles, and Chicago is…

More than with orchestral concerts or solo recitals, string quartet programs tend to fall into a predictable pattern: a little…

Musical history is full of examples of less-than-stellar premieres, but few first performances attain the disastrous proportions of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony…

However misused or poorly conceived, multicultural programs are an easy sell in the arena of classical music. Yet it’s difficult…

Free concerts in Pilsen Sept. 16 and Millennium Park Sept. 19. A subscription season that opens Sept. 23-28 with…

The composer Ingvar Lidholm once defined the Scandinavian brand of choral singing as “an absolutely even, equalized…

Long before chamber music became the domain of professionals, making music was something that family and friends…

Two concerts by the Newberry Consort this weekend highlighted this celebrated ensemble’s many strengths. On Friday the youthful…

Even more than Beethoven and Schubert, Hector Berlioz personified the dawn of Romanticism in music—to the extent that…

When it comes to exciting classical music, bigger is not necessarily better.

True, there’s nothing like a large group of…