Andris Nelsons
The big news was the well-deserved Grammy for best orchestral performance that the BSO and current music director Andris Nelsons won .
The BSO’s Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.
The English horn, of course, is no stranger to haunting melodies.
This 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.
Of course, it’s a tricky business to summarize a classical music scene as busy and wide as Boston’s.
Andris Nelsons possesses a clear fondness for Slavic music and his Tchaikovsky performances in Boston have become can’t-miss events.
Andris Nelsons drew playing from the BSO that reveled in Alban Berg’s sense of color and musical drama.
Fuse Commentary: The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2016-17 Season Announcement
On the whole, 2016-17 is shaping up to be one of the liveliest Boston Symphony Orchestra seasons since the first years of James Levine’s tenure.
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