Chicago Classical Review

With Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra set to embark on a West Coast tour later this month, the…

If you can’t enjoy Haydn, then it’s quite likely — as a soprano friend puts it — that you have…

Sunday afternoon at Symphony Center, violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Sam Haywood presented gleaming, polished, and thoroughly engaging readings of…

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center opened its new Chicago residency series Friday night at the Harris Theater with…

To add to the hoopla of Riccardo Muti’s return to the podium Thursday night, it was announced earlier in the…

As the University of Chicago’s resident performing ensemble, the Pacifica Quartet maintains a regular presence on the University of Chicago…

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra stopped at Symphony Center Sunday afternoon, the venerable English ensemble drawing a respectable and quite appreciative…

Without trying too hard, one can think of any number of reasons why Aida should be problematic for 21st-century audiences:…

This week’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra program is centered on meat-and-potatoes Czech-German repertory with two familiar standards by Dvořák and Beethoven.

Yet…

Mei-Ann Chen, the Chicago Sinfonietta’s new music director, sometimes refers to herself as “a young Asian lady,” deliberately evoking the…