- May 24, 1999
- No Love Lost
Whatever relationship Alfred Brendel has to the music he plays, passion has never seemed part of it. The effect can be positively chilling.
- May 24, 1999
- Pierre Boulez and the Cleveland Orchestra
- May 17, 1999
- Strings Attached
As their divergent new recordings attest, the winners of this year's Avery Fisher Prize are gifted violinists with strong ideas behind the bows.
- May 10, 1999
- The Juilliard School and it's "Liaisons"
- May 10, 1999
- Look Back In Angst
Haunted by deathly imagery, "Requiem for a Young Poet," Bernd Alois Zimmerman's massive millennial downer, finally has its U.S. premiere.
- May 3, 1999
- Giulio Cesare
- May 3, 1999
- Family Business
City Opera revives "Intermezzo," Richard Strauss's witty, intimate self-portrait, featuring a brilliant performance from soprano Lauren Flanigan.
- April 19, 1999
- Witch Hunt
With echoes resonating back to HUAC and Salem, Carlisle Floyd's popular southern gothic 'Susannah' finally arrives at the Met -- 44 years after its debut.
- April 12, 1999
- The Emerson String Quartet
- April 12, 1999
- Respect Your Elgar
The National Symphony Orchestra keeps shaking up the repertory, offering New York premieres by Corigliano, Bolcom, and -- better late than never -- Elgar.