Wednesday, June 21, 2017
The Heath Quartet delivers a triumphant Bartók cycle; Natalie Dessay's Schubert misses the mark widely.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, June 19, 2017
The BSO's Brahms' sounds as robust and responsive as they do when they're on their best behavior at Symphony Hall.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 17, 2017
For all the surface-y beauty of the BSO's playing, it's a dull interpretation of Anton Bruckner's Symphony no. 3.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04AM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
The Emerson Quartet is as restless and curious as ever; pianist Simone Dinnerstein is featured on a treasure of a disc.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 15, 2017
Why do such a high number of significant contemporary composers hail from Iceland?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2017
It is one of the enduring ironies of classical music that so much of today's repertoire was written by such a small number of people. This post is the fifteenth in a multipart Arts Fuse seri…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:48PM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2017
Sea Pictures offers, frankly, everything one might want in a song cycle: sweeping melodies, evocative scoring, stirring drama and pathos.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Samuel Barber: one of the most individual and distinguished voices to emerge in Europe or America during the 20th century.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:54PM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
In all, Chorus pro Musica's production was witty and diverting, timely in spots and smart throughout
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AM[SHARE]Friday, May 12, 2017
Rimsky-Korsakov's , Antar packs a world of chimeric colors, impellent drama, and memorable tunes into less than thirty minutes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 7, 2017
By opting to set Figaro as a straight comedy, Cucchi's production glossed over the opera's subversive edge.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2017
There aren't too many ensembles around that consistently remind us how fresh, rich, diverse, and thought-provoking contemporary can be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:18PM[SHARE]Friday, April 28, 2017
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter gave a searing, intense reading of the solo part in Nostalghia (In Memory of Andrei Tarkovskij).
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 27, 2017
So, what is one to make of the BPYO's weekend effort? It was a bit bold, to be sure. But it was also stirring, heartfelt, and timely.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Mitsuko Uchida is quite possibly the finest Mozart pianist around today, at least among non-period specialists.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 16, 2017
Sometimes new music isn't really new and old music isn't actually old; the best of it exists on some other plane entirely.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 12, 2017
A welcome triumph for Hyperion, Bruch, and the Nash Ensemble, but the Oregon Symphony does not do right by Haydn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 11, 2017
On paper, at least, the upcoming season of the BSO is a bit of a letdown: cautious, unthreatening, comfortable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2017
For terrific viola playing and some fresh repertoire by familiar names, look no further than Antoine Tamestit's Bel Canto.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 1, 2017
Hyperion builds a CD around a superb performance of Amy Beach's magnificent Piano Concerto.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24PM[SHARE]Friday, March 31, 2017
No orchestra in this country embraces the challenges of Charles Wuorinen's hyper-intellectual style better than the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 30, 2017
There have been lots of recordings of Philip Glass to hit the market recently. One of the highlights is VÃkingur Ólafsson's Piano Works.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 28, 2017
This invigorating, sometimes unpredictable, Beethoven-heavy program certainly offered its share of athleticism and energy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:06AM[SHARE]Monday, March 27, 2017
Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra serve up some curious and, from time to time, rather languorous Elgar.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 23, 2017
"We thought, why don't we hark back to earlier occasions which were equal parts socializing and entertainment?"
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:06PM[SHARE]Monday, March 13, 2017
In the Piano Concerto, Ferruccio Busoni seemed to want to have the final word in the tradition of the Romantic concerto.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 2, 2017
Whatever challenges there may be, the enthusiasm of the New England Philharmonic's leadership is infectious.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2017
This was a stirring, thought-provoking, and, ultimately, moving reading of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2017
It was a treat to experience Philip Glass's orchestral music live and in-person.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03AM[SHARE]Monday, February 13, 2017
Front and center was Andris Nelsons, who, interpretively, seemed more than happy to try on a bunch of different hats.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:24PM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2017
Pianist Denis Kozhukhin does right by Brahms and an all-Saint-Saens disc that, at its best, is a winner.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:06PM[SHARE] 
