“Joyce Yang dazzled the Breakers on Saturday night with fire and power in an engaging selection of Russian piano favorites beginning with selections from Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, op. 37a. She kept her hands close to the keyboard in the opening January movement...
- July 7, 2024
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“Newport Classical opened its 55th Music Festival in grand style with the Sphinx Virtuosi ― “a dynamic and inspiring professional self-conducted chamber orchestra and serves as the flagship performing entity of the Sphinx Organization – the leading non-profit dedicated to transforming lives through...
- July 6, 2024
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The innovative and creative chamber orchestra offered the final concert of Classical Newport’s 54th acclaimed summer festival, as the 15 players produced an enormously rich and lush sound in the resonant acoustic of The Breakers of Sunday. Stephen Martorella, The Boston...
- July 25, 2023
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Newport Classical’s Festival Artists in Residence Lun Li and Ariel Horowitz, violins; Edwin Kaplan, viola; Titilayo Ayangade, cello; and Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, piano; delivered a grand-slam finale Saturday at The Breakers, including a debut work commissioned for the festival. Schumann’s mighty...
- July 24, 2023
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Charismatic clarinetist Anthony McGill and captivating pianist Anna Polonsky presided over Newport Classical’s gala cocktail party and concert at the Redwood Library last night. Lee Eiseman, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
- July 22, 2023
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Coming from that great heritage that is Russia’s cultural legacy, these performers live and breathe that musical landscape in their very souls; each member individually developing an impressive artistic legacy of his own, they combed their talents in a passionate...
- July 17, 2023
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Newport Classical’s Saturday Night festival concert brought the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to the Breakers Mansion in a delightful HIP of Handel, Biber, and a newly commissioned East Coast Premiere of American composer Mason Bates Appalachian Ayre. With only a...
- July 16, 2023
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With pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, Eldbjørg Hemsing led a first-half tour of the Scandinavian Arctic followed by a visit with French masterworks Friday night for Newport Classical. Stephen Martorella, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
- July 15, 2023
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Hélène Grimaud enchanted a packed Breakers Mansion in Newport Thursday with Beethoven’s Op. 109, a late sonata, followed by Brahms’s Three Intermezzi Op. 117 and 7 Phantasien Op. 116, concluding with Bach’s Chaconne via Busoni. Stephen Martorella, The Boston Musical...
- July 14, 2023
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Zlatomir Fung delivered a stunningly radiant, resonant, and joyous account of Bach’s solo Cello Suites for Classical Newport Wednesday evening in the Breakers Mansion. Stephen Martorella, The Boston Musical Intelligencer
- July 13, 2023
- 1 Min Read
