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Orfeo

Classical Album Reviews: Andris Nelsons’ CBSO Recordings, and Mariss Jansons’ SACD Recordings

A collection that provides a fascinating bit of context for how Andris Nelsons has developed as a conductor over the last decade-plus, and an honest, mostly flattering, tribute to a much-loved conductor, the late Mariss Jansons.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BR Klassik, ity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Orfeo

Classical CD Reviews: Offenbach’s “La Périchole,” Aaron Jay Kernis’ Orchestral Works, and Baiba Skride plays Bartók

Marc Minkowski’s recording of Jacques Offenbach’s La Périchole pays the composer a handsome tribute in his birthday year; violinist Baiba Skride’s new all-Bartók disc is one of the year’s best.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aaron Jay Kernis, Baiba Skride, Bru Zane, La Périchole, Marc Minkowski, Naxos, Orfeo

Classical CD Reviews: JoAnn Falletta conducts Schreker, Manfred Honeck conducts Beethoven & Strauss, and Baiba Skride’s “American Concertos”

JoAnn Falletta’s recording of Schreker’s orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a strong advocate for Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: American Concertos, Baiba Skride, Beethoven & Strauss, JoAnn Falletta, Manfred Honeck, Naxos, Orfeo, Reference Recordings, Schreker

Fuse Concert Review: Boston Early Music Festival — Musical Miracle Workers

After experiencing, in seven days, Monteverdi’s three extant operas and his Vespers of 1610, I am in awe of BEMF and everyone associated with it.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: BEMF, Boston Early Music Festival, Early Music, Monteverdi, Opera, Orfeo, The Coronation of Poppea, The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland, Vespers of 1610

Fuse Book Review: Richard Powers’s Urgent “Orfeo” — Can Art Save Us?

As with any Richard Powers novel, when you finish “Orfeo” you will have no doubt you are alive, awake, and likely ready to start over at page one.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Eric Grunwald, fiction, novel, Orfeo, Richard Powers

Opera Review: An Outstanding “Orfeo” from Boston Early Music Festival

The tremendous success and rave reviews elicited by this “Orfeo” are due in large part to Boston Early Music Festival’s superb orchestra and cast of eight singers.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Boston Early Music Festival, Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo

Theater Review: A Mild FeverFest 08

By Bill Marx Now in its third year under the watchful eye of the admirable Whistler in the Dark Theatre, FeverFest presents a selection of Boston’s fringe groups in an evening of short performances, a sort of theatrical tasting event billed as a round up of “explosive work by vital young companies.” Tonight will be […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-theater, Featured, FeverFest, fringe, imaginary-beasts, Mill-6-collaborative, Orfeo, Persona Non Grata, The-New-Exhibition-Room, Theater, whistler-in-the-dark

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