This album manages to impressively realize the depth and versatility of John Adams’s music for string quartet. It also announces the arrival of a phenomenal ensemble that plays with a mix …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:27PMMarch is a month to hear amazing pianists - Jeremy Denk, George Li, Charlie Albright, Jeffrey Swann, Wu Han, and Lydia Artymiw - as well as inspiring choruses and unusual chamber music
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:43PMHandel and Haydn artistic director Harry Christophers placed a composer who is familiar, but not always the focus of attention, front and center, and, in the process, reminded us just how go…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14PMIn the slow third movement, Mr. Zander, the BPO, and the Symphony seemed to really be in sync: the music breathed, sighed, sang, and unfolded at a natural pace that brought out the best in e…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:35PMIn an effort to give the proceedings an intimate, salon feel, the Symphony Hall stage was dotted with a couple of potted plants, three armchairs, and a pair of music stands; the cavernous en…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:50AMJohn Adams's Chamber Symphony brought out the best in Mr. Lewis as a conductor: it was fun watching him maneuver through the score’s intricate rhythmic patterns and his confidence was refl…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:32PMDiscovery Ensemble is already the local ensemble to watch for their brilliant programming and energized performances. Now add to that their commitment to educational outreach and Boston’s …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27AMMusical quibbles aside, the performances on both albums from Boston Modern Music Project’s in-house label, BMOP/sound, are top-notch.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:56PMTo describe the contents of the CD "Hywel Davies" as trivial is to be generous.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:21AMThe Worcester Chamber Music Society's latest concert was inspired by an ambitious concept and it was played with conviction, but the performance was continuously dogged by problems with acou…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AMJulian Rachlin is a Romantic violinist in the best sense: he has technique to burn, but isn’t overly showy. His tone is pure, his intonation impeccable, and in his playing the melodic line…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:37PMHighlights of the month include performances from the admired vocal groups A Far Cry and the Lorelei Ensemble as well as early music programs from the Green Mountain Project and Dünya.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:20PMThis recording makes as strong a case for Barber’s unjustly neglected choral music as any: it’s a disc not to miss.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:16AMNow in his mid-50s, Esa-Pekka Salonen is one of the most interesting and important composers of his generation and the recent attention his music is receiving is well deserved.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:39PMOn Sunday, the New England Philharmonic and music director Richard Pittman are presenting a family concert that pays no heed to the season but showcases some of the area’s finest young per…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29AMBravo to Courtney Lewis and the Discovery Ensemble for programming Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Five Images" and pulling off such an engrossing performance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:37PMChamber music fans will know that the current season will be the last for the extraordinary Tokyo String Quartet (TSQ), which opted to disband rather than replace retiring violinist Kikuei I…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:15AMA festive month of music, with The Emerson Quartet, A Far Cry, Tallis Scholars, and the Borromeo Quartet among the standout performers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54AMIf the BSO wanted to make a statement about where it might be headed based on the strong artistic results of the current season, it certainly could have. That it didn’t is a missed opportu…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:34PMHandel & Haydn Society captured all of this and then some with a vigorous, focused performance that was a marvel of controlled fury.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:55AMSaariaho’s music is often lush and vibrant, to be sure, but it also can lose track of its musical purpose and meander excessively from time to time. Not so in "Circle Map."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:25PMNovember features a number of visits from celebrated performers, from Kelly O'Connor and Thomas Adés to the Takács Quartet. Music for Food also presents its second concert/benefit of the s…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:52AMThat Symphony Hall was probably a third empty is inexplicable, but, if you missed any of these concerts, it’s truly your loss. These were among the BSO’s benchmark performances of the la…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:09PMIf you think contemporary music is the domain of fusty academics and has no bearing on (or relationship to) the outside world, you really need to check out "Canzonas Americanas."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMHerbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig present us here with what is easily the most memorable classical box set of 2012 and, possibly, the most important addition to the Bruck…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:47AMIt’s a pity we can’t hear the Discovery Ensemble every week – it’s a group that radiates energy and models inventive programming.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:50AMFriday’s was the first of a series of strong, interesting programs H&H is offering this season. If its success is any indication of what’s to come (and I hope it is), we should have…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AMThis weekend’s soloist, Joshua Bell, is a performer who perhaps best approximates Leonard Bernstein’s charismatic personality in performance: a fully engaged interpreter, he does not shy…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:57PMThe highlights of the month include appearances by star performers Joshua Bell, Stefan Jackiw, Jorge Luis Prats, and Arabella Steinbacher.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:43PMNow a remarkably energetic eighty, violinist Joseph Silverstein may have lost a bit of his former technical facilities, but his playing is marked by musical sensibilities that come from his …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:01PMThe first concert of the Worcester Chamber Music Society augured a promising start for the ensemble’s seventh season.
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