Classical Music
Skylark performed an inventive and highly enjoyable program of music and tales from Norse Mythology and the land of the Vikings.
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Hilary Hahn supplies a disc of immaculate Bach; conductor Sakari Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic play music by Rued Langgaard to the hilt.
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Andris Nelsons presided over an interpretation of Mahler’s Symphony #2 that was both tightly controlled and emotionally cathartic.
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Lorelei Ensemble’s latest recording is awe-inspiring.
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Every performance of opera should leave an audience so exhilarated.
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JoAnn Falletta’s recording of Schreker’s orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a strong advocate for Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto.
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Violinist Viktoria Mullova supplies one of the year’s most programmatically-cohesive and thoughtfully-executed albums.
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What wasn’t there to love about 20th-century music on a night like this? In a word, nothing.
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MassOpera opened their season with a workshop of a new opera, something they’ve never done before.
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Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg is a three character comic opera that combines elements of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit and Perry Mason.
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues