Classical Music

Classical Music CD Reviews: Emerson String Quartet and Renée Fleming Do Justice to Viennese Modernists; Jerusalem Quartet Play Beethoven String Quartets

August 29, 2015
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The Emerson String Quartet and Renée Fleming team up for one of the finest recordings of the year.

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Classical Music CD Reviews: Vadym Kholodenko plays Grieg and Saint-Saëns and Javier Perianes plays Grieg

August 28, 2015
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Javier Perianes is a musician of sweeping, Romantic sensibilities, eager to take a stand, and the result is a triumphant recording

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Classical CD Reviews: John Adams’ “Absolute Jest” (SFS Media); Alexander Melnikov plays Schumann (Harmonia mundi)

August 27, 2015
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John Adams’ Absolute Jest is a sheer blast of fun, wildly inventive and, at its best, a vertiginous collage.

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Classical Music Feature: Fifty Years Later, Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar Remains the Gold Standard

August 14, 2015
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There is something undeniably affecting about Elgar’s composition and cellist Jacqueline du Pré realizes it all with an unbridled depth of feeling.

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Concert Review: The Borromeo String Quartet @ 25 — Sublime

August 6, 2015
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No other concerts I’ve heard this summer can come close to the thrill I experienced hearing the Borromeo Quartet.

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Concert Review: Monadnock Music String Quartet (in Trio Form)

August 5, 2015
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The trio’s musical offerings were substantial and not the easiest things for an occasional group to pull together.

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Classical CD Reviews: James MacMillan conducts Vaughan Williams, MacMillan, and Britten and Boston Lyric Opera’s “Clemency”

July 30, 2015
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Two recent albums feature compositions by James MacMillan, one of Europe’s leading composers, as well as an opportunity to hear him conducting.

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Classical Music Reviews: Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich, James Brawn plays Beethoven

July 29, 2015
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This recording is the first of a partial Shostakovich cycle Andris Nelsons and the BSO are embarking upon.

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Classical CD Reviews: Isabelle Faust plays Schumann and the Dmitri Ensemble plays Shostakovich Chamber Symphonies

July 22, 2015
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Listening to Isabelle Faust’s performance of Schumann’s Violin Concerto I wondered why the piece has remained on the fringes of the repertoire for so long.

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Classical Music Review/Commentary: BSO / Pianist Kirill Gerstein – Whose America?

July 20, 2015
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The BSO’s Americana concert could only provide four beautiful snapshots of a very complicated landscape.

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