Jonathan Blumhofer
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 come from any label so far this year.
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 reputation of someone like Thomas Adés.
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 of often thrilling, Apollonian grandeur.
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.
Fuse Commentary: 2013-1014 Orchestral Season Preview
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 upcoming orchestral season.
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