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Gustavo-Dudamel

Classical Reviews: Boston Modern Orchestra Project plays Harold Shapero, Peter Lieberson’s “Songs of Love and Sorrow,” and Charles Ives’s Complete Symphonies

Discs dedicated to overlooked composers Harold Shapero and Peter Lieberson are well worth your attention. Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra don’t do well by Charles Ives’ final symphony, but the three preceding symphonies fare better.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Charles Ives, Deutsche Grammophon, Gustavo-Dudamel, Harold Shapero, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Ondine, Peter Lieberson, Songs of Love and Sorrow

Concert Review: L.A. Philharmonic — Gustavo Dudamel and Yuja Wang

The charmed trifecta of John Adams, Yuja Wang, and Gustavo Dudamel produced a hit, at least to this Boston audience.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Gustavo-Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Yuja Wang

Concert Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Symphony Hall

New Yorker critic Alex Ross has called the LAPO the best orchestra in the country and that appellation seems about right.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Gustavo-Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical CD Reviews: Vienna Philharmonic’s 2017 New Year’s Concert and Previn plays Previn

Gustavo Dudamel takes over the reins of the Vienna Philhamronic’s annual New Year’s concert; a disc of chamber music by Andre Previn.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andre Previn, Gustavo-Dudamel, Hawthorne String Quartet, Sony Classical, Terezin Music Foundation, Thomas Martin, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra New Year's Concert 2017

Concert Review: A Gripping Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Symphony Hall

For at least the last decade, the LAPO has set the bar in creative programming, commissioning new works, and integrating itself into its community.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Gustavo-Dudamel, LAPO, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, The Celebrity Series of Boston

Classical Music: Dudamel Comes to Town

Leonard Bernstein was the most charismatic conductor of the last century, and Gustavo Dudamel is the most charismatic one of this century. By Caldwell Titcomb I provided a lengthy update on the phenomenal conductor Gustavo Dudamel here in December. But now there is important fresh news about him. He actually came to town this weekend […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Caldwell-Titcomb, Classical Music, Gustavo-Dudamel, McDermott Award in the Arts, MIT, MIT Symphony Orchestra

Classical Music Sampler: April 2010

By Caldwell Titcomb April 1: Ursula Oppens, long a champion of contemporary music (and a 1965 honors graduate of Harvard), presents a free piano recital under the auspices of the Blodgett Distinguished Artists Series. The program includes John Corigliano’s “Winging It,” William Bolcom’s “Ballade,” Tobias Picker’s “Three Nocturnes,” the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s “Oros,” […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Opera Tagged: “I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Boston Conservatory’s Piano Masters Series, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Caldwell-Titcomb, Gustavo-Dudamel, Harvard Glee Club, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Heinrich Schütz, Hugh-Wolff, Idomeneo, Jameson Marvin, John Harbison, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, M.I.T-Chamber-Chorus, MIT Symphony Orchestra, NEC Philharmonia, Opera Boston, Radcliffe Choral Society, Robert Kyr, Robert Levin, Samuel Barber, SSt. Lawrence String Quartet, The-New-England-Conservatory, Triple Helix Piano Trio, Ursula Oppens, Vincenzo Bellini, Ya-Fei Chuang

Coming Attractions in Classical Music: October 2009

By Caldwell Titcomb Oct 4: Celebrated mezzo-soprano Frederika von Stade gives her farewell Boston performance to inaugurate the Celebrity Series’ new season. Also sharing the spotlight will be the famed soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Symphony Hall, 3:00 p.m.

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston, Boston Baroque, Boston Classical Orchestra, Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble and Chorale, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Caldwell-Titcomb, Cambridge, Celebrity-Series, classical, concert, conductor, Federico Cortese, Frederika von Stade, Gustavo-Dudamel, Handel, John Adams, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ludovic Morlot, Martin Pearlman, Memorial Church, Murray Forbes, Music, Opera, Opera Boston, organ, PBS, Rossini, Somerville, Steven Lipsitt, The Chiara Quartet

Music Review: Dazzling Dudamel & His Kids

By Caldwell Titcomb Boston now knows what the international shouting has been about this year. In the field of classical music, the greatest buzz has focused on the frizzy-haired young conductor Gustavo Dudamel and his Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela (SBYO), which came to town for a November 7 concert in Symphony Hall.

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Music Tagged: Caldwell-Titcomb, Gustavo-Dudamel, Music, Simon-Bolivar-Youth-Orchestra-of-Venezuela

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