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Classical Music Album Review: Paganini “Caprices”

May 25, 2025
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The story of this album is that violinist María Dueñas enters as a star but emerges as a brilliant and preternaturally thoughtful artist.

Concert Review: Joshua Bell, Anna Handler, and the BSO Confront de Hartmann’s Haunted Ukrainian Concerto

November 25, 2025
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The destruction and displacement of people today so recall the past that Thomas de Hartmann’s music resounds with fierce, resonant force.

Concert Review: The Bard in Boston, Part 3

February 16, 2016
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The BSO’s Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.

Culture Vulture: Andre Previn and the Art of Literate Conversation

August 16, 2009
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by Helen Epstein Go here for information about a live-chat, scheduled for August 23rd, with Helen Epstein on “The Art of Narrative Writing.” They were around for most of my lifetime, I thought as I listened to Martin Bookspan, the 83-year-old radio announcer and music commentator and 80-year-old conductor, composer, and jazz artist Andre Previn.

Classical Album Review: Conductor Andris Nelsons’s Over-Sweetened “Strauss”

August 12, 2022
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This is a release that showcases many of Andris Nelsons’ strengths, including his strong sensitivity for instrumental colors, blends, and balances. At the same time, it also demonstrates the conductor’s hit-or-miss nature with the core repertoire.

Classical Music Album Review: John Corigliano’s Piano Music

July 28, 2023
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An album that does admirable justice to one of the most prolific, significant, and increasingly long-lived composers of a remarkable generation.

Classical Album Review: “Adrian Boult: A Musical Legacy” — Introduction to a Special Conductor

January 8, 2021
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Sir Adrian Boult certainly had his ups and downs as a conductor, but these performances showcase him largely at his best.

Concert Review: Tanglewood’s Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration Gala

August 28, 2018
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Nearly three decades after he left us, Bernstein’s music seems to be in good hands and anything but forgotten. And his larger musical influence strongly endures.

Opera Album Review: Oscar Wilde in the Opera House, Part 2 — Richard Flury’s Approachable “A Florentine Tragedy”

January 22, 2020
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Another operatic version of Oscar Wilde’s one-act love triangle that ends with the woman’s husband murdering her lover, to her enraptured delight.

Rethinking the Repertoire #10 — Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Frieze”

October 4, 2016
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Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze is, without a doubt, one of the major symphonic scores of our century.

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