NOTÍCIAS DE NOVA IORQUE

Music Review

A Brisk Prokofiev Comedy, Without Opera Heroics
By Steve Smith
A concert performance by the conductor Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Maryinsky Theater at Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday was a reminder that Prokofiev’s “Love for Three Oranges” is endlessly inventive.
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A Wide-Ranging Evening With Cymbals and Dog Whistles
By STEVE SMITH
During a return engagement on Friday night Jeffrey Milarsky authoritatively conducted the American Composers Orchestra in five disparate works, including three commissioned premieres.
Music Review

Violin Duo Celebrating Milestone, Helped by Friends and Disciples
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center hosted a concert in honor of the violinist sisters Ani and Ida Kavafian, who made their Carnegie Hall debut as a duo 25 years ago.
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A Dark and Ghostly Work, Bereft of High Spirits
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
The violinist Vadim Repin played Prokofiev’s spooky violin scales at the end of the first movement in his Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor with eerie, barely audible pianissimos during a performance with the pianist Nikolai Lugansky.
Music Review Garrick Ohlsson

Pianist Celebrates Scriabin as Angular Impressionist
By ALLAN KOZINN
The pianist Garrick Ohlsson brought fingers, fortitude and a freewheeling imagination to his all-Scriabin recital on Saturday evening at the 92nd Street Y.