There'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 co…
The 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…
There 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…
So 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.
Two discs released by Harmonia Mundi benefit from the dramatic flair of conductor René Jacobs.
Last year, Arts Fuse Critic Jonathan Blumhofer was awarded a grant to support a concert of his music performed by the Worcester Chamber Music Society.
Violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Sam Haywood delivered a highly entertaining and substantive (if too short) Sunday afternoon recital.
In sum, this was one of those rare concerts in which everything clicked, musically and dramatically.
Charles Dutoit, one of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's favorite guest conductors, drew playing of high energy and vivid color.
Saturday'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.
Discovery 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.
New discs from Harmonia Mundi: One explores the music of Pulitzer prize-winner Kevin Puts, the other focuses on the songs of Hanns Eisler, and it is one of the most fascinating albums to com…
Two new releases from Harmonia Mundi celebrate the sacred and secular sides of the Christmas season.
A new disc of music by Martin Schlumpf, one of the leading figures in Swiss contemporary music whose career focuses on "the borderlands between improvisation and composition."
The Boston Symphony Orchestra lacks a composer-in-residence. There are many local composers the orchestra might draw on were it to establish such a position, but few have the international r…
If Thursday's performance of Mahler's Second Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus was marked by some untidiness, the broad picture to emerge was one o…
Gil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) have been on something of a recording tear of late.
A knockout performance from pianist Jeremy Denk, cellist Jan Vogler exudes a strong poetic sensibility, and pianist Hélène Grimaud's Brahms Concertos are a mixed bag.
In conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, the BSO has one of its most trusted guests and thoughtful collaborators.
For their debut on Sunday, Odyssey Opera and conductor Gil Rose could hardly have picked a more spectacular, unfamiliar epic than they did.
So, even though certain pieces by Mendelssohn and Beethoven seem to be turning up with greater frequency than perhaps may be healthy, there is still much to admire and look forward to in the…
Christian Gerhaher is, perhaps, the great Mahler baritone of his generation, while Bruckner is, perhaps, a surprising choice for conductor Kent Nagano, whose championship of new music is leg…
Harmonia Mundi has, of late, released a series of excellent Schubert albums.
It's a pity Witold Lutoslawski's music isn't turning up on more orchestral programs in the U.S. this season and next " Benjamin Britten seems to be the centennial birthday boy of choice.
Despite its drawbacks, "Aleko" is a remarkably satisfying opera and filled with much beautiful music.