Classical Music

Fuse Classical Music Review: Chameleon Arts Ensemble Ends Its Season Brilliantly

May 15, 2012
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Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s programming, the brainchild of its director and flutist Deborah Boldin, aims to place pieces together that have interesting things in common musically and culturally.

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Classical CD Review: Jeremy Denk’s Ligeti/Beethoven (Nonesuch)

May 10, 2012
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If you find classical music to be a vibrant, living thing in which inventive pairings and convincing realizations of music of the distant and recent past can speak in fresh and vital ways to the present, Jeremy Denk is your man and this is your CD.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra/Bernard Haitink at Symphony Hall

May 7, 2012
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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 is a piece the BSO trots out with greater regularity of late than most orchestras (as Tanglewood aficionados are aware, it’s been the traditional summer closer each August for about a decade now) and, while such familiarity may not exactly breed complacency, it certainly runs the risk of so doing.

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Classical Music Sampler: May 2012

May 2, 2012
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Many musical organizations around New England are performing their last concerts of the season, so if there’s a group you’ve been wanting to hear, this is a good opportunity.

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Concert Review: Emmanuel Music Performs Mozart’s Rarely Staged Operatic Salute to Forgiveness — “La Clemenza di Tito”

April 17, 2012
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Emmanuel Music bought this neglected Mozart opera to life with polished musicianship and excellent singers.

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Concert Review: Leila Josefowicz and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen

April 16, 2012
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As the BSO searches for its new music director, Mr. Salonen’s name is sure to come up. While he’s probably a long-shot candidate, any orchestra that has him on their podium for a week or two a season should count itself lucky.

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Concert Review: Paco de Lucía — The Rock Star of Flamenco Guitar

April 13, 2012
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There was nothing in the program about the pieces he and his fellow musicians would be playing, but no one seemed to care. Most already knew the music from Paco de Lucía’s recordings. They were coming to hear him live, and there was not an empty seat to be seen in the Boston Opera House.

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Classical CD Review: “Sounds of Defiance” (Yevgeny Kutik, violin/Timothy Bozarth/piano)

April 9, 2012
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This recording heralds a serious, probing musician exploring some vital, if unfamiliar, twentieth-century violin repertoire, and, as such, presents a more-than-welcome addition to recent solo violin discography.

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Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnányi at Symphony Hall

April 7, 2012
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If a few of his tempos, particularly in the opening movement, weren’t among the liveliest on record, there was a gravitas and underlying conviction to Mr. von Dohnányi’s interpretation of “A German Requiem” that were wholly appropriate to the piece and its appearance on a program that was presented during Holy Week.

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Concert Review: An Embarrassment of Vocal Riches — Blue Heron and The Tallis Scholars

April 4, 2012
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It was, for this listener, an embarrassment of riches, even in this early music town. Both groups gave excellent performances of music written at approximately the same time.

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