Classical Music
New Yorker critic Alex Ross has called the LAPO the best orchestra in the country and that appellation seems about right.
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The thought of the Kissin/Emerson collaboration was very intriguing, and I anticipated amazing music making.
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This is a sound I’ve never heard before at a chamber concert: over twenty musicians breathing in unison.
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The Rosenbergs is small in scope but large in ambition; it is an accomplished and moving opera that demands attention.
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A thoroughly charismatic Fairy Queen from start to finish, well-prepared, fulgently delivered, and received by a packed house with well-earned warmth.
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Pianist Alexander Melnikov has come up with one of the still-young year’s most compelling discs, Deutsche Grammophon releases an aural train wreck.
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Two Mahler symphonies, one sluggish the other intense, while symphonies composed by Louise Farrenc, Mozart, and Haydn are done right.
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Superb discs from pianist Lars Vogt, violinist Francesca Dego, pianist Denis Kozhukhin, and violinist James Ehnes on the viola.
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It would have been wonderful to have seen either a faithful version of Threepenny Opera in German or a boldly conceived contemporary version.
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Classical Music Commentary: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2018-19 Season Announcement
The BSO seems to have taken to heart complaints about its lack of programming diversity, devoting two full programs to underrepresented groups.
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