Classical Music
Beethoven’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.
Read MoreAndris Nelsons possesses a clear fondness for Slavic music and his Tchaikovsky performances in Boston have become can’t-miss events.
Read MoreThe music was so extraordinarily pleasant and well performed that the two-hour production breezed by.
Read MoreAs a composer, Gunther Schuller’s legacy is complex and has yet to be settled. Sorting through it all will constitute a great, welcome adventure.
Read MoreAndris Nelsons drew playing from the BSO that reveled in Alban Berg’s sense of color and musical drama.
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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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