Classical Music
My snoring neighbor left during intermission (he was roused a bit when the musical vigor picked up in the finale of the Mozart).
Read MoreI urge anyone interested in the voice and or just terrific music to try to attend one of Mirror Visions’ concerts.
Read MoreThis performance of contemporary pieces inspired by Mozart came with a touch of the playfully interrogative.
Read MoreThe Boston Artists Ensemble performance was full of bravado, virtuosity, subtlety, and charm.
Read MoreBeethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.
Read MoreThis is truly exciting, world-beating Beethoven, played with gusto and a kind of musical intelligence that you simply can’t take for granted.
Read MoreOf course, it’s a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston’s.
Read MoreFor classical music recordings it has been a remarkably rich year, especially over its second half.
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Classical Music Commentary: “Boulez est mort”
And yet, for all the violence of his youthful polemics and his unflinchingly-held beliefs, Pierre Boulez was neither demagogue nor ideologue.
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