• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About
  • Donate

The Arts Fuse

Boston's Online Arts Magazine: Dance, Film, Literature, Music, Theater, and more

  • Podcasts
  • Coming Attractions
  • Reviews
  • Short Fuses
  • Interviews
  • Commentary
  • The Arts
    • Performing Arts
      • Dance
      • Music
      • Theater
    • Other
      • Books
      • Film
      • Food
      • Television
      • Visual Arts

Joshua Bell

CD Reviews: Joshua Bell’s Classical Collection; the Baltic Chamber Orchestra plays Shostakovich and Strauss

The Classical Collection proves that violinist Joshua Bell is only now entering his prime; the Baltic Chamber Orchestra serves up a grim and underwhelming disc.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Baltic Chamber Orchestra, Emmanuel Leducq-Barome, Joshua Bell, Rubicon, Sony Classical, The Classical Collection

CD Reviews: Berio’s “Sinfonia,” Joshua Bell’s Brahms, and Yevgeny Kutik’s “Words Fail”

Three CD reviews, including a disc featuring Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis, and Jeremy Denk teaming up to play less-than-barn-burning favorites by Brahms.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: For the Love of Brahms, Jeremy Denk, Josep Pons, Joshua Bell, Matthias Goerne, Steven Isserlis, The Synergy Vocals and BBC Symphony Orchestra, Timo Andres, Words Fail, Yevgeny Kutik

Concert Review: Violinist Joshua Bell and Conductor-Designate Andris Nelsons at Tanglewood

To judge from the BSO’s responsive playing and the audience’s enthusiastic responses, director-designate Andris Nelsons can’t do much wrong these days. Of course, a decade ago, neither could James Levine.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Bell, Tanglewood

Concert Review: Joshua Bell at Symphony Hall

Violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Sam Haywood delivered a highly entertaining and substantive (if too short) Sunday afternoon recital.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Celebrity-Series-of-Boston, Joshua Bell, Sam Haywood

Fuse Classical Music News: Tanglewood’s Stellar Opening Night

Tanglewood had a stellar opening night on Friday with perfect weather, a large crowd, and melodious concerts of mostly Tchaikovsky.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Fuse News Tagged: Culture Vulture, Joshua Bell, Tanglewood

Concert Review: Joshua Bell and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Marcelo Lehninger

This weekend’s soloist, Joshua Bell, is a performer who perhaps best approximates Leonard Bernstein’s charismatic personality in performance: a fully engaged interpreter, he does not shy away from physically expressing the emotional content of what he’s playing.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Bell, Leonard Berstein, Marcelo Lehninger

Classical Music Sampler: October 2012

The highlights of the month include appearances by star performers Joshua Bell, Stefan Jackiw, Jorge Luis Prats, and Arabella Steinbacher.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Featured, Music Tagged: Anthony McGill, Arabella Steinbacher, Blue Heron, Boston Chamber Music Society, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Callithumpian Consort, Celebrity-Series, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Discovery Ensemble, Jorge Luis Prats, Joshua Bell, Musica Sacra, Nareh Arghamanyan, Narek Hakhnazaryan, New-England-Philharmonic, Pacifica String Quartet, Sound Icon, Stefan Jackiw, The Boston Philharmonic, The Callithumpian Consort, The Celebrity Series, The Radius Ensemble

Classical Music Sampler: July 2012

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) residency at Tanglewood begins with an all-Beethoven concert on July 6th and runs through August 26th (when it concludes with a John Harbison premiere and more Beethoven –- the Ninth).

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Featured, Music Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Bang on a Can Festival, Charles Dutoit, Dan Zhu, Emmanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Tanglewood Music Festival

Classical Music Review: Clear As a Joshua Bell

The recipient of countless honors and awards, the perennially popular Joshua Bell, now 43, can still pass for a 20-something. He’s still slender with the same trademark head of straight, light brown, swinging hair (think Ringo in a shampoo commercial) that he’s always had. Joshua Bell, violin and Sam Haywood, piano. Presented by the Celebrity […]

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Music Tagged: Celebrity-Series, Classical Music, Joshua Bell, violin

Culture Vulture: Youth and Age at Tanglewood

By Helen Epstein This Tanglewood season, overshadowed by the absence of ailing maestros James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, and others who have canceled their appearances, has got me thinking about age and illness. There have been some compelling concerts these past two months, including Michael Tilson Thomas’s riveting Mahler renditions, but the absence of a strong […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Classical Music, Culture Vulture, Jeremy Denk, Joshua Bell, Mendelssohn, Susanna Mälkki, Tanglewood

Primary Sidebar

Search

Popular Posts

  • Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Plays Shostakovich, Brahms, and Mackey Under the baton of Andris Nelsons, a listless Boston Sy... posted on January 27, 2023
  • Coming Attractions: January 29 Through February 14 — What Will Light Your Fire As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse cr... posted on January 29, 2023
  • Album Review: “Satan Is Busy in Knoxville: The Knoxville Sessions, 1929 & 1930” — The Devil’s in the Details Ted Olson continues bringing important location recordi... posted on January 14, 2023
  • Music Feature: It’s Opening Night — Groton Hill Music’s 1000-Seat Concert Hall Groton Hill’s stunning new venue is a beautifully desig... posted on January 22, 2023
  • Book Reviews: Discoveries Galore — Three Children’s Books About the Natural World This trio of beautifully-illustrated children’s books o... posted on January 17, 2023

Social

Follow us:

Footer

  • About Us
  • Advertising/Underwriting
  • Syndication
  • Media Resources
  • Editors and Contributors

We Are

Boston’s online arts magazine since 2007. Powered by 70+ experts and writers.

Follow Us

Monthly Archives

Categories

"Use the point of your pen, not the feather." -- Jonathan Swift

Copyright © 2023 · The Arts Fuse - All Rights Reserved · Website by Stephanie Franz