Classical Music
I urge anyone interested in the voice and or just terrific music to try to attend one of Mirror Visions’ concerts.
This performance of contemporary pieces inspired by Mozart came with a touch of the playfully interrogative.
The Boston Artists Ensemble performance was full of bravado, virtuosity, subtlety, and charm.
Beethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.
This is truly exciting, world-beating Beethoven, played with gusto and a kind of musical intelligence that you simply can’t take for granted.
Of course, it’s a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston’s.
For classical music recordings it has been a remarkably rich year, especially over its second half.
Andris Nelsons possesses a clear fondness for Slavic music and his Tchaikovsky performances in Boston have become can’t-miss events.
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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