Classical Music
Those assembled at Boston’s Jordan Hall were thoroughly prepared to be enraptured.
Read MoreHardly any of the under-60s generation can tell you who Serge Koussevitzky was or what his legacy consists of.
Read MoreElgar’s brilliant scoring in his Symphony no. 1 was front and center, in this performance not an end in itself but serving clearly expressive goals.
Read MoreNobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Read MoreThe BSO’s Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.
Read MoreThe English horn, of course, is no stranger to haunting melodies.
Read MoreThis season’s three-week commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – the first such thematic series of Andris Nelsons’ BSO directorship – go off to a compelling start.
Read MoreI look forward to more collaborations between these two ensembles, who were born to make, as they say, really beautiful music together.
Read MoreThree new classical music albums: two are superior, one is a bit of a mixed bag.
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