Susan Miron

Classical Music Review: Emerson String Quartet at Tanglewood

July 18, 2011
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On CD, the award-winning Emerson String Quartet are terrific, but live, they are even better.

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Classical Music Review: Musical Power Couple Wow Rockport

June 27, 2011
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This was ensemble playing by two people who knew not only the music, but each other completely. There are some things you can’t fake, and one is ensemble playing with a person — or people — you love. (I speak from experience here). Everything was perfect.

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Classical Music Sampler: July 2011

June 27, 2011
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July is a month when most of the great classical music is happening in pastoral settings and festivals around New England and far from Boston.

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Fuse Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival, Part Two, Exhibition and The Boston Camerata

June 21, 2011
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BEMF is, quite simply, paradise for those who love early music, and they seem to be a different audience than those who show up for, say, the Boston Symphony or any of the excellent chamber music groups around town.

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Classical Music Review: Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin Seduces Rockport

June 20, 2011
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For decades, Mr. Hamelin was known for his forbiddingly fabulous technique deployed to play and record vast swaths of immensely difficult and arcane repertoire that most pianists had rarely touched or even known of. Then, the past few years, he ventured into the standard repertoire with astonishing results.

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Fuse Classical Music Review: Boston Early Music Festival: Part One

June 15, 2011
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The Boston Early Music Festival is THE place for performers to be heard. And there are enough good programs, between the big Jordan Hall concerts, the two operas, a Family Day program, the mini-festivals for organ and keyboard, fringe concerts at at odd hours of the day and late night, for everyone.

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Classical Music Sampler: June 2011

May 31, 2011
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June is not a month that lends itself to an easy gathering of concert recommendations, mostly because it presents an an embarrassment of riches. Many festivals are in full swing, others just beginning.

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Classical Music Review: Maria Padilla and the indomitable Barbara Quintiliani

May 10, 2011
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The past week saw its New England premiere of “Maria Padilla,” and while it’s received mixed reviews in the press, no one could fault the singing. It’s just that it is a very strange opera, with all signs pointing towards a tragedy, but it all ends happily — for an opera, anyway.

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Classical Music Sampler: May 2011

April 26, 2011
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The month’s international highlights include the Boston Modern Orchestra taking on the music of India, The Cantata Singers finishing up their homage to British composer Ralph Vaughn Williams, and Musica Sacra performing Flemish Choral Music of the High Renaissance. By Susan Miron. Sunday, May 1 @ 1:30 p.m. at MassArt’s Pozen Hall, Boston, MA. The…

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Classical Music Review: Finally Joining the Cult of Tomsic

April 17, 2011
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The audience went wild; Chopin’s Ballades do that to people. Cheering broke out after Dubravka Tomsic played the second ballade, and by the fourth, which starts out quietly like a lullaby and builds up to an all-out, rhapsodic, virtuosic tour de force, the entire audience seemed smitten. Dubravka Tomsic. Presented by the Celebrity Series at…

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