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Musically agile maestro Davis bends to match iconoclastic Kissin’s Tchaikovsky with CSO

Oct 16, 2015 – 2:17 pm | 1,086 views
Artistic director PJ Paparelli was killed in a car crash in May 2015. (American Theatre Company)

Review: You could feel the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s crack troop of musicians and their super-flexible maestro Andrew Davis snap to alertness when the Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin ignored what he had just heard in the opening of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, and simply went his own way in a performance Oct. 15 at Orchestra Hall.

It’s a pianistic happening as Evgeny Kissin treats adoring listeners to a musical bounty

Apr 28, 2013 – 11:34 pm | 3,128 views
Pianist-Evgeny-Kissin-at-Orchestra-Hall

Review: After the third encore in pianist Evgeny Kissin’s recital Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall, the hundreds of listeners still on hand switched into an insistent, stentorian applause. The Russian virtuoso came through with one last bonus, a thundering roll through Chopin’s Prelude in D minor, Op. 28, No. 24; and with that, another phenomenal exhibition was over. ★★★★★

Decidedly duo recital by Weilerstein, Barnatan launches Symphony Center chamber series

Oct 27, 2012 – 4:12 pm | 2,713 views
Alisa Weilerstein alt credit Gerardo Antonio Sanchez Torres

Preview: Ask cellist Alisa Weilerstein about the recital she plays Oct. 28 at Orchestra Hall, and she will quickly note that the best thing about the program is that it’s actually a duo recital for two equally important voices – and that she’s lucky to be teamed up with Israeli pianist and longtime collaborator Inon Barnatan. Their concert opens the chamber music portion of this season’s Symphony Center Presents series, which also offers four more chamber concerts, nine solo piano recitals and two performances by visiting orchestras.

Sip New Year’s bubbly at home, tune in to great performances from around the world

Dec 30, 2011 – 4:57 am | 3,423 views
Danielle de Niese  Ariel  Enchanted Island Metropolitan Opera credit Ken Howard

Our selective guide to the best national broadcasts, international radio streams, concert replays and festive downloads to help you ring in New Year 2012.