Strong discs from Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Francois-Xavier Roth and his Paris-based period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles, and the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, an ad-hoc summer orchestra comprised of some of the U.S.’s finest conservatory musicians.
Ravel
Concert Review: Charles Dutoit conducts Ravel and Javier Perianes plays Manuel de Falla
Javier Perianes proved himself one of the elite pianists of our day, playing with such deep, inward focus.
Fuse Concert Review: Boston Chamber Music Society enchants with Ravel and Debussy
Despite the high level of the players, there are things a professional quartet brings to a performance or recording—uniformity of sound and style—that cannot be matched by a group cobbled together and given limited rehearsal time.
Culture Review: At MIT, an exhilarating example of 21st-century, multi-media collaboration
It would have been easy to make an entire season out of the ideas the Boston Chamber Music Society compressed into one afternoon; as it is, the wealth of material had the audience buzzing during the two intermissions. Some found the multi-media presentation too much of a good thing. I found it exhilarating and challenging […]