Green Mountain Project has done everything right, paying careful, historically informed attention to pitch, transposition, tempi, number of performers, and tuning.
Several merits distinguish Blue Heron's concerts, the most salient being the always-gorgeous singing of this pre-eminent Renaissance vocal choir.
Spirits were lifted; those in need of holiday cheer got a massive dose of it. Bravo to The Boston Camerata and to Les Fleurs des Caraïbes.
The Emerson String Quartet gave its all - beauty, power, fire - in Johannes Brahms's String Quartet in A minor, Opus 51, no. 2.
The tremendous success and rave reviews elicited by this "Orfeo" are due in large part to Boston Early Music Festival's superb orchestra and cast of eight singers.
Where does such musical maturity and - let's face it - genius come from? Pianist George Li's phrasing, the beauty of his sound, his perfect pedaling and expressive rhythm - all were in play.
The Takács Quartet have won the kind of acclaim that most chamber groups can only dream of, and their concert in Boston made their enviable reputation understandable.
Why, Rita Costanzi asks incredulously, do harpists, albeit occasionally, marry other harpists: "Does the word masochist mean anything to you?"
Teams of string coaches were deployed to make this quartet of actors look like they knew what they are doing with their instruments, but no critic has noticed how completely unrelated the mo…
Considered by some to be a guardian of ancient music, Jordi Savall has inspired adulation for a variety of reasons, but in the end it's because he plays the viol or viola da gamba better tha…
It was an absolute pleasure to finally hear the extraordinary clarinetist Anthony McGill in person, and clearly the audience felt the same, because there were several curtain calls and much …
Nareh Arghmanyan is a personality and technique that thrives on performing Romantic music, and it was her Rachmaninov and Schumann that were most impressive on a recital that also featured t…
The late John Updike, Harvard Professor Maria Tartar recalled, described fairy tales as "the television and pornography of an earlier era."
Jorge Luis Prats' performance was absolutely breathtaking, and one had the sense of being at a historic recital, of discovering a hugely gifted, yet virtually unknown, artist.
em>The big theme in fiction this summer was the resonance of disappearance -- seen as satire, as melodrama, and as tragedy.
Despite the high level of the players, there are things a professional quartet brings to a performance or recording"uniformity of sound and style"that cannot be matched by a group cobbled to…
Under the baton of its Artistic Director, Susan Davenny Wyner, Boston Midsummer Opera has become an annual highlight of Boston's classical music line-up during the summer.
What continually impresses about A Far Cry is their discipline, ability to keep complicated rubato under complete control, well-modulated dynamics, beauty of sound, and really interesting pr…
The vocal ensemble Blue Heron closed its season with "a marvelously expansive concept of the divine" in a program of 16th-century Spanish music based on or inspired by the Song of Songs.
Chameleon Arts Ensemble's programming, the brainchild of its director and flutist Deborah Boldin, aims to place pieces together that have interesting things in common musically and culturall…
Many musical organizations around New England are performing their last concerts of the season, so if there's a group you've been wanting to hear, this is a good opportunity.
Emmanuel Music bought this neglected Mozart opera to life with polished musicianship and excellent singers.
There was nothing in the program about the pieces he and his fellow musicians would be playing, but no one seemed to care. Most already knew the music from Paco de LucÃa's recordings. The…
It was, for this listener, an embarrassment of riches, even in this early music town. Both groups gave excellent performances of music written at approximately the same time.
April is an unusually excellent month for Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts -- a promisng match up of programs and conductors.