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John Nelson’s La Damnation de Faust is a triumph; you will rarely encounter Villa-Lobos played with greater understanding or in better sound than here; Paavo Järvi and his orchestra’s survey of Messiaen orchestral works early and late is resplendent.
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Classical music continued to thrive, locally and globally, in 2019.
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While Samantha Fish shines with her guitar work on the new album, she impressed more with her singing live.
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The Boston Dance Theater’s talented group of dancers spent much of the performance nervously twitching and swaying.
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Five tunes that will make it impossible to have a Blue Christmas.
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Our demanding critics choose the best (and the most disappointing) films of the year.
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A fresh, bracing take on Beethoven as a dramatist, Tesla Quartet serves up refreshingly direct and emotionally-complex performances of Mozart, and flautist Emmanuel Pahud has crafted an ear-catching, unpredictable program.
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In this valuable call-to-action, Roger Hallam says we have to recognize that climate change is an emergency and rebel against our extinction.
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Our expert music critics serve up their usual highly eclectic round-up of the year’s most memorable.
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Book Review: A Biography of John Berger — A Seminal Artist and Thinker
If you have not read John Berger, by the end of this biography you’re likely to feel an urgent need to pick up one of his books.
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