Boston Symphony Orchestra
This recording is the first of a partial Shostakovich cycle Andris Nelsons and the BSO are embarking upon.
The BSO’s Americana concert could only provide four beautiful snapshots of a very complicated landscape.
A series of new and recent recordings by Boston orchestras demonstrate that, in the right hands, symphonic music since 1945 remains alive and well, still powerful, fresh, and vibrant.
By the end of Andris Nelsons’s inaugural season he had the BSO playing with lots of energy and like they really care, night in and out.
What makes pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet an ideal interpreter of Ravel’s Concerto in G is his understanding of and appreciation for jazz.
There was new music, of which Nelsons’s an uncommonly gifted interpreter; old music that mostly sounded lively; and a big, loud, late-Romantic warhorse that let him and the BSO show off.
Saturday’s was the most electrifying, exciting, spontaneous-sounding, inevitable performance of this warhorse (Beethoven’s Violin Concerto) I’ve heard.
The BSO’s captivating performances of King Roger received unanimous rave reviews from the local press, to which I add mine.
Julia Fischer’s account of Brahms’s Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) this weekend was nothing if not dynamic and impressive.
Classical Music Commentary: Kapellmeister Nelsons
We’ll have to wait and see how Andris Nelsons balances things out. But there’s no reason to suspect that Boston’s getting the short end of the stick here.
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