Saturday, May 4, 2019
The final two concerts of the BSO's season were in the orchestra's sweet spot.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:04PMSunday, April 28, 2019
This performance of Ives' Third was the most welcome entry in the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra's celebratory season – a beautifully considered, powerfully rendered account of this too-neg…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:26AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
A freshly thought through, energetically executed Berlioz disc; a lovely album that contains excellent performances of underperformed and unfamiliar repertoire that deserves to be heard and …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:46AMMonday, April 8, 2019
A trio of fine discs: Leonard Berstein's music for solo piano, Charlie Chaplin's songs, and Charles Hubert Hastings Parry's trios.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:44AMSunday, April 7, 2019
Benjamin Zander conducts a conspicuously fine Mahler Nine; François-Xavier Roth’s new account of Mahler’s Symphony no. 3 proffers nothing particularly special.
The post Classical CD Rev…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:26AMMonday, April 1, 2019
The fact is, the BSO’s 2019-20 season doesn’t risk enough and lacks a true spirit of adventure.
The post Arts Commentary: The Boston Symphony’s 2019-20 Season Announcement appeared fir…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:56AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
While the orchestra’s program was almost defiantly canonical, it was played with such lightness and energy that you could forgive its disappointing safeness.
The post Classical Music Revi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:03PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Richard Pittman led the core players of BMV in a confident, evocative reading of the music.
The post Classical Concert Review: Boston Musica Viva plays Hoffer, Smith, and Greene appeared fi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:30PMFriday, March 8, 2019
The BSO recently announced an extension to artistic partner Thomas Adès's contract. It is lucky to have him. So are the rest of us.
The post Classical Concert Review: Thomas Adès conducts …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:11PMFriday, March 1, 2019
Anniversaries are both the bane and the lifeblood of the classical music industry as, for better or worse, three new box sets remind.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:37AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
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The post Classical Music CD Reviews: Juan de Arriaga’s Orchestral Music, Lortzing Overtures, and Boieldieu’s Piano Concerto et al. appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:59PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
Michael Gordon's score for The Unchanging Sea works better as soundtrack than a concert work; Harmonia mundi releases a DVD of William Kentridge's powerful staging of Alban Berg's Wozzeck.
T…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:11PMMonday, February 25, 2019
This Sunday’s BPYO concert tied together a number of highly personal strands, presenting music connected to two of conductor Benjamin Zander’s mentors -- Benjamin Britten and Gustav Hols…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:33AMSunday, February 24, 2019
John Corigliano’s take on goodbyes is, if not exactly bitter, then full of sorrow: few happy memories to be had here.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:00PMFriday, February 8, 2019
Conducting Lumina, Andris Nelsons was entirely in his element, capably drawing out the music’s shimmering gestures -- string flourishes, brass fanfares, woodwind filigrees, and the like �…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMMonday, February 4, 2019
Pianist Kirill Gerstein's take on Busoni is exhilarating; the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra serves the forceful music of composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and violinist Elina Välhälä do…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMSunday, February 3, 2019
Hearing Sanford Sylvan sing made one rich: spiritually, emotionally, musically.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:42AMFriday, February 1, 2019
Fine recordings of symphonies by neglected American composers Florence Price and George Antheil; and a curious album from Cornelius Meister and the ORF Radio-Sinfonieorchester Wien.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:48PMWednesday, January 30, 2019
Richard Muti draws playing of full-blooded passion from Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Thierry Fischer conducts Camille Saint-Saëns with a sure hand, and violinist Tasmin Little’s new record…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMSaturday, December 29, 2018
Our critic's year-end tally of the classical albums that, in looking back over 2018, stand tallest – plus a few that didn’t make the bar.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:54PMTuesday, December 25, 2018
Aequa is one of a year’s standout new-music album. Philip Glass's Symphony no. 11 suggests that the composer has more than a few tricks yet up his sleeve. And Neave Trio's Celebrating Piaz…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:32AMSaturday, December 22, 2018
An impressive collection of nine new releases (seven of which are reviewed here). While some might not displace the classic recordings of Debussy already out there, this gathering offers som…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:04PMFriday, December 21, 2018
Our critic's twelve favorite classical music performances that he reviewed this past year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:36AMMonday, December 10, 2018
Handel & Haydn Society's Haydn and Mozart is about as good as it gets; Martyn Brabbins’ recording of a Sea Symphony is one of the year’s best releases; and for elegance and technica…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:32AMSaturday, December 8, 2018
Pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet delivers some fine Mozart; conductor Hannu Lintu brings rhythmic energy and textural transparency to the music of Witold Lutoslawski; Ludovic Morlot and the Seat…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:06PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
American String Quartet's disc features the premiere recording of Robert Sirota’s String Quartet no. 2, American Pilgrimage.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:54PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Without question, this BPYO rendition of Shostakovich Ten was one of the most urgent and necessary of any symphonic score I’ve heard all year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04AMSaturday, November 17, 2018
Next summer promises to be a safe one, musically, at Tanglewood.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMSaturday, November 3, 2018
As good an interpreter of large-scale forms as he’s becoming, Andris Nelsons has always been a terrific conductor of new music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:24AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Pianist Daniil Trifonov's Rachmaninov album is magnificent; the Münchner Rundfunkorchester do right by Franz von Suppé's overtures, and the Romantic Piano Concerto series continues to unea…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMMonday, October 29, 2018
Hilary Hahn supplies a disc of immaculate Bach; conductor Sakari Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic play music by Rued Langgaard to the hilt.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:12AM 
