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Opera Preview: “The Seasons” — A Fascinating and Disturbing Weather Report

March 8, 2025
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“I wanted, with this opera, to see if audiences and collaborators could feel something about our changing weather, in an artistic space.”

Classical Album Review: Handel’s Oratorio “Jephtha,” in All its Highly Dramatic Glory

March 8, 2025
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Conductor Jane Glover, marvelous soloists — including superstar countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen — and a superb chorus and orchestra invigorate one of Handel’s last and greatest works.

Film Reviews: Berlin Film Festival 2025 – Blue Moon and Cologne

March 5, 2025
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A review of two fine backstage (or offstage) comedies at the Berlinale — “Blue Moon” and “Koln 75”.

Concert Review: Vikingur Ólafsson and Yuja Wang — Opposites Attract

March 2, 2025
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Playing side-by-side on two different pianos facing in opposite directions on the Symphony Hall stage, Vikingur Ólafsson and Yuja Wang were as complementary, in a flavorsome way, as lemon and chocolate.

Concert Reviews: Jazz Journal — An Overview of Recent Live Shows

February 27, 2025
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A Boston jazz critic’s notebook — three shows at Regattabar and one at the Lilypad.

Classical Album Reviews: Debussy Sonatas and Arc III

February 27, 2025
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Nash Ensemble’s new album captures much of what makes Claude Debussy’s chamber music so fresh and beloved. Orion Weiss’s Arc III is smart, timely programming, dispatched with insight and care.

Jazz Album Reviews: A Cornucopia of Tenor Saxophonist Mark Turner

February 26, 2025
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Whether he’s playing in the middle, on the edge, or is just flying out on his own, veteran tenor saxophonist Mark Turner reconfirms on these three new releases that he is still finding his own way.

Classical Album Review: Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Music of Mahler and Weill

February 26, 2025
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Sir Simon Rattle and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra solve the riddle of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. The conductor and the London Symphony Orchestra also offer a refreshingly impish, characterful traversal of music by Kurt Weill.

Concert Review: Handel + Haydn Society Explores the Romantic Music of Young Handel

February 23, 2025
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This H + H Society performance suggested Handel’s genius for generating joy.

Jazz Album Review: The Timeless Stillness of Satoko Fujii’s “Altitude 1100 Meters”

February 22, 2025
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Music is one of the ways we experience time — Satoko Fujii and the musicians in “GEN” make it disappear.

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