Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018

The New Yorker

By Alex Ross

Ustvolskaya in Ojai, June 8th

The year’s most staggering feat of musical endurance belonged to the Austrian pianist Markus Hinterhäuser, who, in a non-relaxing but perhaps cathartic break from his duties as the director of the Salzburg Festival, played the six brutally difficult piano sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya under a fierce sun at the Ojai Music Festival. Read more.