Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
Barbara Hannigan
Classical Album Reviews: “Dance With Me” and “Eden”
Marvelously accomplished albums from American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Canadian soprano 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.
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.
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.