Surely the time has come for a major revival of Night Ride and Sunrise.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:33PMChristopher Rouse is a tough composer to pin down and that stylistic unpredictability has, in part, provided his music notable expressive breadth.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:21AMFelix Mendelssohn remains one of the West’s most underrated composers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:34PMElgar’s brilliant scoring in his Symphony no. 1 was front and center, in this performance not an end in itself but serving clearly expressive goals.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:38AMNobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AMThe big news was the well-deserved Grammy for best orchestral performance that the BSO and current music director Andris Nelsons won .
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:00PMThe BSO's Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:55AMThe English horn, of course, is no stranger to haunting melodies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AMEveryone on stage seemed to sense that this was a special occasion and the BSO, accordingly, played with an extra jolt of electricity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:08AMThis season’s three-week commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – the first such thematic series of Andris Nelsons’ BSO directorship – go off to a compelling…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:20AMThree new classical music albums: two are superior, one is a bit of a mixed bag.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:20AMMy snoring neighbor left during intermission (he was roused a bit when the musical vigor picked up in the finale of the Mozart).
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:57PMThe upcoming season, as you will see (or may already know), is a remarkably robust one in terms of the variety of offerings and the quality (and number) of participating ensembles.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:21PMAnd yet, for all the violence of his youthful polemics and his unflinchingly-held beliefs, Pierre Boulez was neither demagogue nor ideologue.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMBeethoven's Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony's performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:21AMKurt Masur leaves behind a complex legacy, one that’s not neatly (or easily) summed up by the caricature of a stern, conservative, Old World German maestro.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMThis is truly exciting, world-beating Beethoven, played with gusto and a kind of musical intelligence that you simply can’t take for granted.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:28PMOf course, it’s a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston’s.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AMFor classical music recordings it has been a remarkably rich year, especially over its second half.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:36PMAndris Nelsons possesses a clear fondness for Slavic music and his Tchaikovsky performances in Boston have become can’t-miss events.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:35AMAs a composer, Gunther Schuller’s legacy is complex and has yet to be settled. Sorting through it all will constitute a great, welcome adventure.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:49PMAndris Nelsons drew playing from the BSO that reveled in Alban Berg’s sense of color and musical drama.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:49AMThe biggest takeaway from the evening was the superb quality of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s playing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:21PMIf you like good, smart singing, tenor Jonas Kaufmann's Nessun Dorma:The Puccini Album disc is for you.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:22PMBy any measure, this is an impressive orchestra, as technically accomplished as any number of professional ensembles, domestic and international.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:53PMSoprano Elizabeth Watts' voice is as clear as crystal in every musical context and texture.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMI’ve rarely heard the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing with greater color, pliancy, or controlled energy as they delivered on Saturday night.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:42PMJames MacMillan is one of the few contemporary composers who has embraced elements of the avant-garde and still found a wide audience.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:49AMMichael Lewin's new album must surely rank among the most poetic and sensitive Debussy recordings of recent memory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMThe truth is that the music of this most politically aware and morally astute of composers needs – and deserves – much wider currency.
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