Music
A one-hour opera that the world forgot — a world-premiere recording of Saint-Saëns’s Phryné.
In World Wide Pop, the London pop collective looks for peace in the digital cosmos, despite intimations of coming oblivion.
This version of Beach Road Weekend marked a huge step to the event joining Newport Folk and Solid Sound among New England’s marquee mid-size festivals.
For all of the music’s fury, protest, anguish, and raw brutality, Tattoo the Earth was a lovefest.
The sound of both musicians is indelible: trumpeter Enrico Rava is warm and rounded; pianist Fred Hersch, often icy, is fetching and detailed.
There’s little doubt at this point regarding the 26-year-old guitarist’s talent for pulling multiple influences into one cohesive, original sound.
It is always heartening for an album to live up to its much-anticipated buildup. It is even more reassuring that, after nearly four decades, The Goo Goo Dolls are breaking new ground.
An opera from Fascist Italy, Gino Marinuzzi’s Palla de’ Mozzi receives a splendid world-premiere recording. Should you listen despite its pedigree?
“Farewell” is the shortest album in the series, but it is perhaps the most provocative in the way it calmly muses, philosophically, on the form that togetherness can take – as it exists and as it dissolves.
The saxophonist has the slithery facility of a bebopper, but I also hear something of the forthright stance of Coltrane in his playing, despite the rhythmic complexity of his writing — and his distinctively varied use of his Puerto Rican background.
Arts Commentary: In Memoriam, Michael Tilson Thomas (1944-2026)