Saturday, March 5, 2016
Surely the time has come for a major revival of Night Ride and Sunrise.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2016
Christopher 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 09:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Felix Mendelssohn remains one of the West's most underrated composers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:34PM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
Elgar'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 11:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 21, 2016
Nobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2016
The 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 03:00PM[SHARE]The BSO's Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons' directorship.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
The English horn, of course, is no stranger to haunting melodies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Everyone 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 09:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2016
This 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 start.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Three new classical music albums: two are superior, one is a bit of a mixed bag.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:20AM[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2016
My 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 12:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 10, 2016
The 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 12:21PM[SHARE]Friday, January 8, 2016
And 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 09:25AM[SHARE]Monday, January 4, 2016
Beethoven'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 12:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 3, 2016
Kurt 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 01:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 20, 2015
This 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 11:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
Of course, it's a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston's.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 5, 2015
For classical music recordings it has been a remarkably rich year, especially over its second half.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Andris 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 12:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2015
As 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 12:49PM[SHARE]Andris Nelsons drew playing from the BSO that reveled in Alban Berg's sense of color and musical drama.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:49AM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
The biggest takeaway from the evening was the superb quality of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra's playing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 4, 2015
If you like good, smart singing, tenor Jonas Kaufmann's Nessun Dorma:The Puccini Album disc is for you.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
By any measure, this is an impressive orchestra, as technically accomplished as any number of professional ensembles, domestic and international.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Soprano Elizabeth Watts' voice is as clear as crystal in every musical context and texture.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
I'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 05:42PM[SHARE]Friday, October 16, 2015
James 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 08:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Michael Lewin's new album must surely rank among the most poetic and sensitive Debussy recordings of recent memory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2015
The truth is that the music of this most politically aware and morally astute of composers needs " and deserves " much wider currency.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
