Chicago Classical Review

April 30

Elgin Symphony Orchestra
Robert Hanson, conductor
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Music of Rosza, Korngold, Waxman, Strauss
1:30 Hemmens Theater,…

The Chicago Sinfonietta’s season isn’t over and nothing has yet been decided in this interim period with guest…

Music of the Baroque’s regular forays into the Classical era sometimes elicit tut-tutt-ing from absolutists who believe…

When an unconventional score like Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergin (1610) survives long enough to have its 400th birthday, it…

Although his universality and ability to transcend mere national boundaries propelled Frederic Chopin to the first rank of…

It’s not easy to devise a Russian program of little known Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.…

All the signs of a typical Yo-Yo Ma recital were there Wednesday night at Symphony Center. Listeners seated on the…

There are two important elements the Fulcrum Point New Music Project nearly always gets right. First, the ensemble,…

One can get some idea of the richness of Chicago’s music scene by the fact that Mahler’s Das…

Among the city’s myriad of chamber music groups, one has to give The Chicago Ensemble credit for both longevity and…