Thanks to CLT’s pluck and commitment to underperformed repertoire, Boston audiences have the chance to check out the rarely performed opera "Mozart and Salieri" for themselves.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:45AMHoward Hersh, like John Adams, hails from northern California, and, as in the latter's "City Noir," the music on Hersh's new album, "Angels and Watermarks," embraces polyglot West Coast cult…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:31AMWhile 1962's Symphony owes a clear debt to Stravinsky and Britten (especially its last movement), it sounds like nobody but Irving Fine. This is a score that orchestras ought to be lining u…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMIn a world populated by talented pianists, James Brawn is a standout. He's not just a virtuoso, but also a probing, thoughtful musician with strong, creative programming instincts.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:19PMConductor Charles Dutoit seems to have little affinity for Mahler’s distinctive style. The quintessential Mahlerian traits – the grotesque, the naïve, the terrifying, the ironic – all…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:27PMPraise is due Peggy Pearson and Winsor Music for providing a forum for the talented young composer Lev Mamuya.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:31AMThe Discovery Ensemble's precision was also on full display in the vigorous contrapuntal writing that came across with impressive, electrifying energy and visceral punchiness.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:39PMA round-up of classical music CD releases: Jon Nakamatsu's uneven interpretation of Robert Schumann piano pieces, Freiburger Barockorchester's ingratiating performance of the Brandenburg Con…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:57AMThree reviews of new classical music CDs: one is inviting, another lively, and the last could use more intensity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14AMSnappy new recordings of the music of Milton Babbitt and George Antheil from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project while cellist Christ Wild's disc offers a fascinating journey through some ri…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:41PMFor at least the last decade, the LAPO has set the bar in creative programming, commissioning new works, and integrating itself into its community.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:09PMMost of the programs during BSO conductor Andris Nelsons’ ten subscription weeks look fresh and, if not outright adventurous, on paper they at least look more exciting than not.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:05AMIf "Salome" was a harbinger for what’s to come, we may be on the cusp of a golden era, indeed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:17AMAs if the Discovery Ensemble’s impressive return after a three-month hiatus weren’t news enough, last week brought the announcement that Courtney Lewis has been appointed assistant condu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:59AMTwo new recordings from Harmonia Mundi offer gripping performances, including one of the Smetana String Quartet no.1 that's particularly full of fire and life.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:04AMPianist Murray Perahia's return this weekend, with Schumann’s A minor Concerto, seemed tailor-made on paper: he’s one of the world’s great chamber musicians and this concerto plays to …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMPianist Benjamin Hochman is a musician who’s interested in insightful programs that can be provocative, speak across centuries, and engage the mind as much as they delight it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:56AMOn Sunday, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players celebrates its 50th birthday with a typically brilliant program, one that features four world premieres.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:36AMBSO's conductor emeritus Bernard Haitink may be best known for his interpretations of Austro-German repertoire, but, on Saturday night, he channeled his inner Francophile.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:52PMSaturday’s reading of Lutoslawski’s Piano Concerto greatly benefited from pianist Garrick Ohlsson’s steely yet sensitive account of the solo part.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:22PMThere’s much in "La Pasión" to like. Composer Osvaldo Golijov’s use of Latin and South American musical forms has been well documented: the piece offers a striking compendium of idioms …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:29PMThe Boston Modern Orchestra Project is in the habit of making convincing arguments for just about everything it plays and its performers do so again in these three CD releases featuring musi…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AMThere are fistfuls of notes and some tremendous technical skill. But, with a couple of notable exceptions, the readings of some of the cornerstones of the solo piano repertoire by each piani…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:42AMSo we’ve got a mixed bag. If you get this Lang Lang disc, it should be for the Bartók, but not the Prokofiev: as things stand, the competition there simply blows Lang out of the water.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:09PMTwo discs released by Harmonia Mundi benefit from the dramatic flair of conductor René Jacobs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:18PMLast year, Arts Fuse Critic Jonathan Blumhofer was awarded a grant to support a concert of his music performed by the Worcester Chamber Music Society.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:38AMViolinist Joshua Bell and pianist Sam Haywood delivered a highly entertaining and substantive (if too short) Sunday afternoon recital.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMIn sum, this was one of those rare concerts in which everything clicked, musically and dramatically.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:09PMCharles Dutoit, one of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s favorite guest conductors, drew playing of high energy and vivid color.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:40PMSaturday’s pairing demonstrated exactly the kind of risky programming the Boston Symphony Orchestra shouldn’t be afraid to explore, even when it doesn’t all quite come together.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:16PMDiscovery Ensemble is one of Boston’s great musical treasures, a group that consistently reminds us not only that the music they play is important, but why that’s the case to begin with.
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