(Allan Kozinn) Lang Lang (Tuesday) This virtuoso pianist made a name for himself with fiery performances of late-Romantic repertory.
Much of the opulent late-Romantic repertory of the early 20th century – and that includes Szymanowski – has been rehabilitated in recent years.
Scholars now routinely ascribe modernist complexities to ostensibly old-fashioned late-Romantic repertory; they are often right, though the category of "modernist" can become meaningless in the process.
At its peak the Chicago was best noted for the sonority of its brass choirs, especially in the late romantic repertory.
While Mr. Kissin leans toward sprawling, virtuosic Russian and late Romantic repertory, he does not neglect earlier, more structured works, as this tour program shows.
He used a larger string body than is typical now that period-instrument chamber orchestras have asserted ownership of the late-18th-century repertory.
Mr. Eschenbach will play all kinds of music, but expect him to return regularly to the 20th-century and late Romantic German repertory so close to his heart.
But Mr. Eifman cooks this recipe to an anthology of chunks (taped, of course) from the French late-Romantic musical repertory that, however contemporaneous with Rodin's life, is shockingly ill-suited, scene by scene, to the subject matter.
The vibrant Alaska-born mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, who has excelled of late in Baroque repertory, will share a program with the dynamic Canadian bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch, who won many fans in New York for his portrayal of the title role in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" with the New York City Opera.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet ORCHESTRAS AND CHORUSES NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC With Mahler's Ninth Symphony barely behind him, Lorin Maazel takes on another colossus of the late-Romantic German repertory: the Symphony No. 8 in C Minor by Bruckner, in the final two concerts of the orchestra's subscription season.
