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Classical Album Reviews: “Strangers in PARadISe,” Camille Saint-Saëns’ Orchestral Works, and Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique”

December 27, 2019
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Diana Tishchenko’s a violinist well worth keeping an eye on; Jun Märkl leads the MSO in brisk, shapely readings of pieces by Saint-Saëns; Françoix-Xavier Roth and Les Siecles come up with some winning Berlioz.

Classical CD Reviews: Semyon Bychkov conducts Franz Schmidt and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mendelssohn Symphonies

July 11, 2017
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Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin does dazzlingly right by the symphonies of Mendelssohn.

Jazz Review: Trumpeter Jason Palmer Plays Minnie Riperton — Pop Meets New Jazz

August 29, 2013
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An evening that showed yet again how pop (even “modern” pop) can serve as nourishment for new jazz.

Classical Music Album: Kevin Puts’ Orchestral Works — Plenty to Admire, Even Love

October 19, 2025
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This is a terrific compendium of new music of the best sort: the kind that’s brilliantly written, expressively direct, played with assurance, and engineered with clarity and warmth.

Arts Remembrance: A Grateful Farewell to this Generation’s Best Champion of the Short Story

November 18, 2012
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Isaiah Sheffer’s lasting contribution will be his almost single-handed revival of interest in that most beguiling of fictional forms, the short story.

Classical CD Review: Seattle Opera’s Earthbound “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (Avie Records)

January 5, 2015
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What one really wishes is that the Seattle Opera’s Ring Cycle had been released as a DVD.

Classical Album Review: American Organ Concertos, Performed With Plenty of Swagger

September 18, 2024
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Paul Jacobs, the day’s reigning organ virtuoso, has assayed a fascinating assortment of Americana that showcases the King of Instruments against an orchestra.

Classical Concert Review: Karina Canellakis Conducts Bartók and Haydn

February 14, 2024
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Karina Canellakis’s tour through Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” showed why she remains a conductor who continues to exercise a remarkable interpretive power.

Classical Album Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard Plays Bartók’s Piano Concertos

August 27, 2023
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Ultimately, then, we’ve got something special here: a fresh take on some canonic works by a conductor and soloist whose bread-and-butter is this very fare.

Classical Music Commentary: Tanglewood Confabulation

September 1, 2010
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This past Friday night’s guests were two of the most impressive names in classical music, concert pianist Emmanuel Ax and conductor Kurt Masur. By Ron Barnell One of the highlights of this and the past several Tanglewood seasons has been a two-step operation. First, early Friday night Boston Symphony Orchestra concert goers enjoy chamber music…

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