“STYLISH, COMMITTED, FRESH”

www.concertonet reviews the opening night with the New York Philharmonic “It takes chutzpah to start the 2012-2013 New York Philharmonic season with a stage virtually empty. And to finish the program with a stage jam-packed from proscenium to proscenium with...

PHILHARMONIC OPENS SEASON AT AVERY FISHER HALL

The New York Times reviews Leif Ove Andsnes performance of Kurtag and Beethoven with the New York Philharmonic “Typically the New York Philharmonic opens its season with a gala concert that is broadcast in public television’s “Live From Lincoln Center” series....

“I COULDN’T HAVE HAD A BETTER SENDOFF”

Bloomberg’s Businessweek has just returned from an extended visit to the Salzburg Festival, ostensibly to check out the opera scene and to interview Alexander Pereira about his first season as Intendant.  Jeremy Gerard covers “The Magic Flute”,...

“BEETHOVEN, FASCINATINGLY CLEAR”

Austria’s Die Presse reviews the Salzburg Festival recital “It would have been so nice on 22 August, exactly 150 years after the birth of the French composer, to have had the pianist Krystian Zimerman play a pure Debussy program, but he had to cancel...

“THE BIG CHANCE USED TO BEST EFFECT”

Austria’s Wiener Zeitung reviews the Salzburg Festival recital “… Andsnes is a brilliant technician and he does not use this ability as a blind end in itself, but instead uses the dreamlike security of his hands to his immediate advantage: It takes a...