Chicago Classical Review

It was not a Levine-era choral blockbuster nor a starry soprano that opened the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s summer season under…

“There’s a kind of loneliness in American music that’s different from other kinds of loneliness,” Leonard Bernstein once…

Summer festivals aren’t exactly vacation time for the performers who provide the music for audiences relaxing under the stars.

But…

Haydn’s Symphony No. 45 may be the officially titled Farewell Symphony, but the nickname also fits Beethoven’s…

Violent, destructive thunderstorms harassed much of Chicago late Friday afternoon, making most of Millennium Park’s early evening…

The Grant Park Music Festival has had its share of weather-challenged opening nights. There have been cold, rainy openings and…

Regrettably, principal conductor Bernard Haitink departs his Chicago Symphony post next week, but the 81-year-old will return…

On Wednesday night, Carlos Kalmar will give the downbeat to Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, kicking off the…

Ingrid Fliter’s recital Sunday afternoon was billed as part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Festival, even though her…

By now, Bernard Haitink’s style in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Festival is a known quantity: quickish tempos, dexterously balanced and…