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Barbara Hannigan

Year-end CD Round-up, Part 1: Rosanne Philippens’ Prokofiev, Dover Quartet’s “Voices of Defiance,” Longleash’s “Passage,” Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 4, and Barbara Hannigan’s “Crazy Girl Crazy”

Reviews of performances that are energetic, immediate, muscular, and simply breathtaking.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alpha, Barbara Hannigan, Cedille, Channel Classics, Crazy Girl Crazy, Longleash, Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 4, New Focus Recordings, Passage, Prokofiev, Rosanne Philippens, SWR Classics, The Dover Quartet, Viktor Ullmann, Voices of Defiance

Commentary: Best Classical Performances of 2016

Picks for the top live classical performances of 2016. Feel free to agree, disagree, add to them, come up with your own list, etc.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Barbara Hannigan, Benjamin-Zander, Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Child Alice, David del Tredici, Dimitrij, Hans Abrahamsen, Jules Eskin, let me tell you, Neville Marriner, New-England-Philharmonic, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Odyssey Opera, Phyllis Curtin, Richard-Pittman, Sir Simon Rattle, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Steven Stucky, Susana Ogata

Concert Review: The Bard in Boston, Part 2

Everyone on stage seemed to sense that this was a special occasion and the BSO, accordingly, played with an extra jolt of electricity.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Barbara Hannigan, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Hans Abrahamsen, let me tell you, William-Shakespeare

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