Classical Music

Concert Review: The Song of Songs and Songs of Love in Sixteenth-century Spain

June 11, 2012
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The vocal ensemble Blue Heron closed its season with “a marvelously expansive concept of the divine” in a program of 16th-century Spanish music based on or inspired by the Song of Songs.

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Concert Review: Boston Choral Ensemble — A Must for Anglophiles and Choral Groupies

June 3, 2012
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An astonishing amount of thinking and creativity has shaped the Boston Choral Ensemble concert.

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Classical Music Sampler: June 2012

May 28, 2012
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Far from being a down month, June marks the start of New England’s summer classical music season.

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Concert Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose at Jordan Hall

May 21, 2012
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Ultimately, there’s a “look at my technique” quality to composer Lewis Spratlan’s writing in this piece that doesn’t match the musical content and that seems to be striving to be all things to all listeners.

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Concert Review: Stephen Hammer and Michelle Graveline at the Worcester Art Museum

May 16, 2012
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Mr. Hammer played Bach’s Sonata in G minor energetically and sensitively, drawing out composer’s long melodic phrases with appealing grace. Ms. Graveline made a strong accompanist, clearly articulating Bach’s contrapuntal textures.

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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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