Chicago Classical Review

June 30

Grant Park Music Festival
Grant Park Orchestra
Krzysztof Urbański, conductor
Krzysztof Jabłoński, piano
Kilar: Krzesany
Chopin: Piano Concerto…

Northwestern University’s festival devoted to the music of John Corigliano closed in grand style Sunday with a finale…

There are two kinds of people in the world: those with good taste and those who like Liszt.

That applies…

The Lyric Opera of Chicago managed to break even in the 2009-2010 season, with a little help…

It seemed like summer arrived Sunday in Chicago—somehow skipping spring—with high 80s temperatures, and Millennium Park teeming with people enjoying…

This spring the Metropolitan Opera was to revive John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, the opera that was launched with…

It’s a rare concert in which a popular Mahler symphony nearly gets upstaged by a contemporary work, particularly one written…

On Wednesday evening, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project served a typically generous program titled “Computers Come…

The Chicago Sinfonietta’s season-closing concert Monday night at Orchestra Hall was a lightweight, potted affair in terms of programming. But…

Pianist Andreas Haefliger presented a single encore—Mozart’s Adagio in B Minor—for his recital at Orchestra Hall on Sunday.  He partially…