"Would I love to do these big operas in Symphony Hall? Yes. When I feel like I’ve got two-thousand people to attend, I’ll move over to Symphony Hall."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:14AMThree CDs from musicians to be reckoned with.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:44AMNew CDs from three outstanding musicians: pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, violinist Arabella Steinbacher, and cellistMaya Beiser.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMThe Chiara Quartet has recorded a series of gritty, compelling takes on Bartók’s seminal group of quartets.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMSpectrum is a stylish, intelligent, and enjoyable disc played by a couple of musicians from whom we can expect big things.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AMThere’s a lot of music by Christopher Rouse to appreciate, ponder, puzzle over, and study in what we’ve got here.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMHilmes’ fascination with Liszt’s public notoriety stands front-and-center in this biographical effort.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:49AMArts and entertainment are one and the same, so the thinking goes, both trivial – or at least way down the pecking order when it comes to things that are genuinely important.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:55PMJean-Guihen Queyras wraps up a Schumann concerto trilogy in style, pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton play with panache and color.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMA superior classical music concept album, a reminder of how smart and sturdy Johan Strauss’s music can be..
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:00PMThat Shostakovich left such a musical testament is, in its own way, miraculous; and it continues to speak to us with immediacy and power.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54AMOne takeaway from the concert: music can be forward-looking and even provocative without being off-putting and ugly.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:09AMAn album of Brahms lieder from two musicians in their prime: Christoph Eschenbach and Matthias Goerne.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMThis Grand Harmonie program is a survey of both the mainstream and wildly experimental uses of early brass instruments.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:06PMOverall, with Transitions Michael Nicolas proves himself a major cellist of his generation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:40AMCelebrating Longy’s rich past has been a big part of the school’s focus these past months.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMThree superb albums: two focusing on works by Brahms, one featuring Hans Abrahamsen's meditation on Shakespeare’s Ophelia.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:08PMGhosts seems to be trying to be all things to all listeners -- edgy, nostalgic, farcical, adventuresome.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:46PMThe Rasas are but the latest in a series of remarkable scores John Harbison has been turning out over his eighth decade.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMThere’s an apparent level of trust between the BSO and its leader, best demonstrated by the spirited excellence of the orchestra’s playing of late.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:28PMMichael Harnoncourt's final recording gives us the conductor at his best. Bernard Haitink helmed a truly great BSO performance of Mahler's Symphony no. 1.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMFort Worth Symphony Orchestra's heart is in the right place with the ensemble consistently erring on the right (far) side of caution.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AMIt’s no secret that 2016 has already been a strong year for albums featuring new and recent music: now things get even better.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:34AMWorking within the forms perfected by Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven early compositions managed to say some things that remain compelling to hear.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMSaturday’s performance revealed the BSO to be at the top of its collective game, totally locked in, and fully responsive to Andris Nelsons’ leading.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:14PMSunday’s concert was highlighted by the world premiere of Bernard Hoffer’s ballet after Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:50AMOn the whole, 2016-17 is shaping up to be one of the liveliest Boston Symphony Orchestra seasons since the first years of James Levine’s tenure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMSo, is the “Gaelic” Symphony an unalloyed masterpiece? I’d argue in the affirmative.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:58PMJavier Perianes proved himself one of the elite pianists of our day, playing with such deep, inward focus.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:01PMViolinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and conductor Teodor Currentzis are two of the most interesting figures in classical music today.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:15PMSurely the time has come for a major revival of Night Ride and Sunrise.
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