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.
This is truly exciting, world-beating Beethoven, played with gusto and a kind of musical intelligence that you simply can’t take for granted.
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.
The music was so extraordinarily pleasant and well performed that the two-hour production breezed by.
As a composer, Gunther Schuller’s legacy is complex and has yet to be settled. Sorting through it all will constitute a great, welcome adventure.
Andris Nelsons drew playing from the BSO that reveled in Alban Berg’s sense of color and musical drama.
The biggest takeaway from the evening was the superb quality of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s playing.
A bewitching South African version of Bizet’s opera — performed with a distinctive blend of spunk and sass.
Music Feature: Best Classical Performances of 2015
Of course, it’s a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston’s.
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