Boston Classical Review7d
Tilson Thomas’s Whitman cycle fares best in BSO’s mixed evening of debuts
Nothing sounded dated about either Tilson Thomas’s edgy, dramatically alert musical language or Whitman’s poems, first ...
Boston Classical Review7d
Boston Classical Review
Sometimes good things come in threes. Other times, they happen in fours. Take the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s concert at Symphony Hall on Thursday night. There were, on the one hand, a trio of debuts: ...
Boston Classical Review10d
Seraphim provides fitful illumination with “Aspects of Light”
Seraphim utilized the space to its utmost in O nata lux de lumine by Kerry Andrew, the sopranos in the back apse initially ...
Boston Classical Review11d
Boston Artists Ensemble puts across the energy and promise of early Beethoven
There is a common misconception about the music Ludwig van Beethoven wrote during the so-called “early period” of his career in the 1790s. To wit that, because he spent those years studying with Franz ...
Boston Classical Review14d
Midori brings fire and intensity to Celebrity Series program
The duo’s first offering, Schumann’s Stücke im Volkston was a late substitution for Che Buford’s Resonances of Spirit. Though ...
Boston Classical Review14d
Kim makes impressive BSO debut in varied works of wartime
The Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a program of Liadov, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff Thursday evening at Symphony Hall. Led by conductor Eun Sun Kim in her BSO debut and featuring pianist Inon ...
Boston Classical Review18d
Zander, Boston Phil Youths find triumph in the tragedy of Mahler’s Sixth
That the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra has made a habit of performing the symphonies of Gustav Mahler shouldn’t blind one to the fact that doing so is completely out of the ordinary: this music ...