Julian 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 i…
Highlights 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.
This recording makes as strong a case for Barber's unjustly neglected choral music as any: it's a disc not to miss.
Now 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.
On 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 perfo…
Bravo to Courtney Lewis and the Discovery Ensemble for programming Esa-Pekka Salonen's "Five Images" and pulling off such an engrossing performance.
Chamber 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…
A festive month of music, with The Emerson Quartet, A Far Cry, Tallis Scholars, and the Borromeo Quartet among the standout performers.
If 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 opportuni…
Handel & Haydn Society captured all of this and then some with a vigorous, focused performance that was a marvel of controlled fury.
Saariaho'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."
November 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…
That 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 last d…
If 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."
Herbert 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…
It's a pity we can't hear the Discovery Ensemble every week " it's a group that radiates energy and models inventive programming.
Friday'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 a v…
This 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 awa…
The highlights of the month include appearances by star performers Joshua Bell, Stefan Jackiw, Jorge Luis Prats, and Arabella Steinbacher.
Now 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 …
The first concert of the Worcester Chamber Music Society augured a promising start for the ensemble's seventh season.
On the whole, then, there's quite a bit to look forward to in orchestral performances this coming season.
There are plenty of classic recordings of the "Siegfried-Idyll" and "Metamorphosen" already, but here's one more " and it also includes a rollicking Schumann with which you can't go wrong.
The greatest obstacle H&H faces in building new audiences, though, is far more insidious than too many period ensembles in town: it has to do with time.
One can't really go wrong with any of the individual concerts, but below are a few highlights released between August 1st and September 2nd. All are available for purchase on the Boston Symp…