Classical

Pretty much the entire New York music world showed up at Lincoln Center Sunday night for the re-opening of Alice […]

For those who haven't heard, Tony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic of the New York Times, is answering readers'

Best Chamber Music Performance: Elliott Carter: String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5, Pacifica Quartet

I was back at Carnegie on Friday to hear Pierre-Laurent Aimard for the second night in a row, this time playing

Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Elliott Carter, Zankel Hall, 2/5/09 (More pics below.)

I'm not exactly sure what Pierre-Laurent Aimard is trying to prove at Zankel tonight by alternating the even, contrapuntal tones

On Sunday, composer, conductor and pianist Lukas Foss passed away at the age of 86, at his home here in New York.

  Forget Perlman, forget Bell, forget Jean-Luc Ponty: for my money, the best violinist I've ever seen is a diminutive