Classical Music
A new disc of music by Martin Schlumpf, one of the leading figures in Swiss contemporary music whose career focuses on “the borderlands between improvisation and composition.”
Read MoreThe Boston Symphony Orchestra lacks a composer-in-residence. There are many local composers the orchestra might draw on were it to establish such a position, but few have the international reputation of someone like Thomas Adés.
Read MoreArts Fuse critics select the best in music, dance, and film that’s coming up this week.
Read MoreIf Thursday’s performance of Mahler’s Second Symphony by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus was marked by some untidiness, the broad picture to emerge was one of often thrilling, Apollonian grandeur.
Read MoreGil Rose and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) have been on something of a recording tear of late.
Read MoreA knockout performance from pianist Jeremy Denk, cellist Jan Vogler exudes a strong poetic sensibility, and pianist Hélène Grimaud’s Brahms Concertos are a mixed bag.
Read MoreIn conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, the BSO has one of its most trusted guests and thoughtful collaborators.
Read MoreThe jam-packed audience for the opening performance of the fiftieth season was filled with Cantata Singers old timers.
Read MoreFor their debut on Sunday, Odyssey Opera and conductor Gil Rose could hardly have picked a more spectacular, unfamiliar epic than they did.
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Fuse Commentary: 2013-1014 Orchestral Season Preview
So, even though certain pieces by Mendelssohn and Beethoven seem to be turning up with greater frequency than perhaps may be healthy, there is still much to admire and look forward to in the upcoming orchestral season.
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