Classical Music

Classical Music Album Review: Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov play Brahms

September 25, 2015
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Just about anything Isabelle Faust touches these days is gold – she’s one of the finest violinists out there

Classical Music Commentary: 2015-16 Orchestral Fall Season Preview

September 24, 2015
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It looks to be as rich, intense, and, hopefully, rewarding a season as we’ve seen in recent memory.

Concert Review: Odyssey Opera’s “Le Cid” — Romantic Turbulence

September 20, 2015
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Massenet’s instinct for drama and gifts as an orchestrator go a long way to carrying the piece, but it still can make for a long night at the theater.

Classical Music Commentary: Kapellmeister Nelsons

September 10, 2015
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We’ll have to wait and see how Andris Nelsons balances things out. But there’s no reason to suspect that Boston’s getting the short end of the stick here.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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