Chicago Classical Review

August 29

Andreas Klein, piano
Mozart: Sonata in A Minor, K.310
Ravel: Sonatine
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 3 in A Minor,…

The richly melodic music of Sergei Rachmaninoff remains a summer programming staple, and a guaranteed way of packing in the…

Wednesday’s Grant Park Orchestra concert delivered a pair of barnburners by Liszt and Tchaikovsky along with a cool splash of…

That established Europe gave classical music to a fledging America is well known. That African-Americans would cross-fertilize European classical harmonies…

Less than three weeks after general director Bill Mason announced his retirement, comes word that the Lyric Opera of Chicago…

Rain threatened, but the onstage star power—in the person of American soprano Renee Fleming—was dazzling. So it was no surprise…

If last season’s Plans and Friday night’s A Child of Our Time are any indication, Chicago’s mercurial weather gods are…

Tendinitis forced Christoph Eschenbach out of Thursday night’s Schumann and Brahms liederabend with Matthias Goerne.  The pair’s song recitals have…

Midori is one of those artists whose consistency, technical excellence and lack of interpretive excess can sometimes allow her gifts…

Sources indicate that Alondra de la Parra is the leading candidate to become the next music director of the Chicago…