Classical Music
After all these many decades I am still deeply moved by Yo-Yo Ma’s playing, which combines irresistible charisma and generosity of spirit.
For recorded sound, for brilliance of orchestral execution, and for interpretive concept, Janowski is one of the 21st century’s best Wagnerians.
Conductor Benjamin Zander and his band were at their collective best performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 6.
This was a fascinating program conducted by someone that the BSO will hopefully put (firmly) into their rotation of distinguished guest conductors.
The BMOP’s opening concert featured the group succeeding at an important part of its mission: to perform unfairly overlooked American music.
The intellectual and emotional intelligence of the docket stands as a conspicuous example of exemplary programmatic creativity.
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze is, without a doubt, one of the major symphonic scores of our century.
To speak with Jörg Widmann is to encounter a mind furiously at work and aware of his craft as viewed through the lens of Western history.
The Lost Songs of St. Kilda is a disc that’s simple but profound, beautiful and enduring.
It is unlikely that any other BSO concert this year will top Thursday night’s performance of Richard Strauss’s opera Der Rosenkavalier.
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