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1 week ago | 
seenandheard-international.com | Edward Sava-Segal
United States Various – ‘Music of Fire & Love’: Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall (director, treble viol). The 92nd Street Y, New York, 11.4.2025. (ES-S)Few musicians have done as much as Jordi Savall to reclaim and breathe new life into the rich tapestry of musical traditions from the Renaissance and Baroque eras. For over five decades, Savall has tirelessly unearthed and illuminated forgotten works, creating vivid performances that seamlessly bridge scholarship with artistic brilliance.
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1 week ago | 
seenandheard-international.com | Edward Sava-Segal
United States Various: Dame Mitsuko Uchida (piano). Carnegie Hall, New York, 9.4.2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
seenandheard-international.com | Edward Sava-Segal
United States R. Schumann, Mozart, Mendelssohn: Mao Fujita (piano), National Symphony Orchestra / Fabio Biondi (conductor). Concert Hall, Kennedy Center, Washington, 5.4.2025. (ES-S)R.
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3 weeks ago | 
bachtrack.com | Edward Sava-Segal
Born in Moscow and now based in Berlin, Zlata Chochieva rose to prominence through luminous recordings of Rachmaninov and Chopin. Celebrated for her tonal finesse and interpretive depth, she made her long-overdue debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in a programme designed to be as poetic as it was formidable. It was an evening of two incongruent halves. Chochieva began with Bartók’s transcription of the Lento from Bach’s Organ Sonata no.
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3 weeks ago | 
seenandheard-international.com | Edward Sava-Segal
United States Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Joana Mallwitz (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 31.3.2025. (ES-S)It is fair to assume that many spectators attending the season’s first performance of Richard Eyre’s familiar 2014 production of Le nozze di Figaro were drawn by Joana Mallwitz’s house debut.
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3 weeks ago | 
seenandheard-international.com | Edward Sava-Segal
United States Mozart, Janáček: Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Dame Mitsuko Uchida (piano, director). Carnegie Hall, New York, 29.3.2025.
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1 month ago | 
bachtrack.com | Edward Sava-Segal
After an unconventional first night at Carnegie Hall – opening with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and concluding with one of his Leonore overtures instead of the usual overture-first structure – The Cleveland Orchestra, under Franz Welser-Möst, followed with a second programme that again defied expectations. This time, they inverted the historical sequence of the evening’s two major Russian works, inviting listeners to consider Stravinsky’s Petrushka before turning to Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no.
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1 month ago | 
seenandheard-international.com | Edward Sava-Segal
United States Various: Midori (violin), Özgür Aydin (piano). Kaufmann Concert Hall, 92NY Center for Culture & Arts, New York, 9.3.2025. (ES-S)R. Schumann – Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op.102Brahms – Violin Sonata No.1 in G major, Op.78Poulenc – Sonata for Violin and Piano, FP119Ravel – Deux mélodies hébraïques: Kaddish (arr.
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1 month ago | 
bachtrack.com | Edward Sava-Segal
When the phenomenally talented Yunchan Lim – still not yet 21 – launched into the opening of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto no. 2, each resonant chord seemed to pose a different question, raising expectations for an exceptional rendition of this warhorse.
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1 month ago | 
bachtrack.com | Edward Sava-Segal
Performing together for the first time as a duo at Carnegie Hall, Leonidas Kavakos and Daniil Trifonov crafted a recital that alternated Classical and Romantic masterpieces with a pair of 20th-century works, each offering a distinct musical response to an era of upheaval. The evening started with Beethoven’s Violin Sonata no. 4, Op. 23, a restless and fiery work that stands apart from the more lyrical violin sonatas that preceded it. Composed alongside the sunnier Sonata no.
