Monday, October 5, 2015
Friday, October 2, 2015
The BSO has had a well-deserved couple of weeks off following their late-summer tour of Europe and, on Thursday, they took some time to regain their sea-legs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
It's one of the enduring ironies of classical music that so much of today's repertoire was written by such a small number of people..
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:38AM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2015
Even if it's a mite inconsistent, Anthracite Fields is a fully deserving Pulitzer winner.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:31PM[SHARE]Just about anything Isabelle Faust touches these days is gold " she's one of the finest violinists out there
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
It looks to be as rich, intense, and, hopefully, rewarding a season as we've seen in recent memory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 20, 2015
Massenet's instinct for drama and gifts as an orchestrator go a long way to carrying the piece, but it still can make for a long night at the theater.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
We'll have to wait and see how Andris Nelsons balances things out. But there's no reason to suspect that Boston's getting the short end of the stick here.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:47AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 29, 2015
The Emerson String Quartet and Renee Fleming team up for one of the finest recordings of the year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
Javier Perianes is a musician of sweeping, Romantic sensibilities, eager to take a stand, and the result is a triumphant recording
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
John Adams' Absolute Jest is a sheer blast of fun, wildly inventive and, at its best, a vertiginous collage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2015
The trio's musical offerings were substantial and not the easiest things for an occasional group to pull together.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 30, 2015
Two recent albums feature compositions by James MacMillan, one of Europe's leading composers, as well as an opportunity to hear him conducting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 29, 2015
This recording is the first of a partial Shostakovich cycle Andris Nelsons and the BSO are embarking upon.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Listening to Isabelle Faust's performance of Schumann's Violin Concerto that I wondered why the piece has remained on the fringes of the repertoire for so long.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 25, 2015
Powder Her Face proved the perfect capstone to Odyssey Opera's month-long survey of British (mostly comic) opera: biting, darkly humorous, provocative, and relevant.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2015
To say that Odyssey Opera continues to set the bar for opera performances in Boston may be a bit superfluous, but it's true.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2015
A series of new and recent recordings by Boston orchestras demonstrate that, in the right hands, symphonic music since 1945 remains alive and well, still powerful, fresh, and vibrant.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:35AM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
By the end of Andris Nelsons's inaugural season he had the BSO playing with lots of energy and like they really care, night in and out.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2015
Taken together, it's a bracing, provocative, and " perhaps above all " fun survey of music for the stage from, for England, the conspicuously abundant 20th century.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2015
Radius Ensemble's final performance of the season touched on examples of musical fantasy, worldly angst, and spiritual transcendence.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
There was new music, of which Nelsons's an uncommonly gifted interpreter; old music that mostly sounded lively; and a big, loud, late-Romantic warhorse that let him and the BSO show off.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2015
Saturday's was the most electrifying, exciting, spontaneous-sounding, inevitable performance of this warhorse (Beethoven's Violin Concerto) I've heard.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:21AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
Ascending Light is, by far, the most serious orchestral score of Gandolfi's I've heard and it succeeds to a considerable extent thanks to its expressive honesty.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
New England's oldest continuously-active opera company brings to Boston a rare performance of one of Tchaikovsky's less-familiar operatic scores.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein's new album, Broadway-Lafayette, features her on three pieces, all written since 1924, that celebrate musical ties between France and the United States.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2015
The opportunity to hear LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek's magnificent score live ultimately trumps any reservations I have about the production as a whole.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:40AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2015
Julia Fischer's account of Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) this weekend was nothing if not dynamic and impressive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:52PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
The main takeaway from this first BSO album under new music director Andris Nelsons is the excellent, exciting Sibelius performance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Evaluations of a number of intriguing new albums, including praise for a disc of string trios by Eastern European composers performed by Ensemble Epomeo.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 15, 2015
After several years in the wilderness, it seems that, on the conducting front at last, the BSO is again in good hands.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:13PM[SHARE] 
