Classical Music
I was excited, moved, impressed, and surprised by Handel & Haydn Society’s performance of The Messiah under the exacting baton of Bernard Labadie.
When it comes to raising high spirits, the BEMF’s delightful Alcina was an inspired choice.
Without question, this BPYO rendition of Shostakovich Ten was one of the most urgent and necessary of any symphonic score I’ve heard all year.
This recording challenges our settled sense of what art music, in conjunction with colorful spoken and sung verse, can accomplish.
This was a truly great performance, one that fully suited the BPO’s season-long, dual commemorations.
Next summer promises to be a safe one, musically, at Tanglewood.
Yes, the first-ever recording of a opera that is as wonderful as Berlioz and Wagner said it is.
Aside from his seemingly effortless technique, Roustem Saïtkoulov struck me as a poet of the piano. Music seems to be his first language.
As good an interpreter of large-scale forms as he’s becoming, Andris Nelsons has always been a terrific conductor of new music.
Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s Rachmaninov album is magnificent; the Münchner Rundfunkorchester do right by Franz von Suppé’s overtures, and the Romantic Piano Concerto series continues to unearth gems.
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