Classical Music
While the orchestra’s program was almost defiantly canonical, it was played with such lightness and energy that you could forgive its disappointing safeness.
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Richard Pittman led the core players of BMV in a confident, evocative reading of the music.
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The Boston Lyric Opera is mounting a fabulous staging of Benjamin Britten’s visceral opera.
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Whom can we thank at the Boston Symphony Orchestra for choosing James Carter to be the featured saxophone soloist in March 23’s concert at Symphony Hall?
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A 1962 concert performance from Radio Italiana, now on CD, shows how delightful Wagner can sound without barking and slow wobbles.
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The BSO recently announced an extension to artistic partner Thomas Adès’s contract. It is lucky to have him. So are the rest of us.
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“It’s not a concert about despair,” observes Joel Cohen, “there’s a lot of festive music in it.”
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Anniversaries are both the bane and the lifeblood of the classical music industry as, for better or worse, three new box sets remind.
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Francois-Adrien
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Michael Gordon’s score for The Unchanging Sea works better as soundtrack than a concert work; Harmonia mundi releases a DVD of William Kentridge’s powerful staging of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.
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Arts Commentary: Rich in Creativity — But Nothing Else