Archive for 2024

January 16 – Dec 22, 2024

Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, conductor Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 Beethoven: […]

Top Ten Performances of 2024 – Dec 21, 2024

1.     Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Andris Nelsons/Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris […]

Back Bay Chorale brings an American accent to the Christmas music season – Dec 21, 2024

A few days after Boston was designated the “most beautiful winter […]

Boston Cecilia’s holiday program provides ecumenical array of comfort and joy – Dec 07, 2024

“A man’s reach,” Robert Browning famously wrote, “should exceed his grasp.” […]

Boston Camerata’s medieval Christmas resonates gracefully with the present – Dec 07, 2024

Boston Camerata proved that medieval music can resonate as much as […]

A trifecta of BSO conductors makes for enjoyable post-holiday Nordic feast – Nov 30, 2024

Sometimes, despite its imposing grandeur and marvelous acoustic, Symphony Hall can […]

December 31 – Nov 25, 2024

Boston Baroque Martin Pearlman, conductor Angela Yam, soprano David Kravitz, baritone […]

Fleming and Gilfry provide memorable moments in Puts’ “Brightness of Light” – Nov 22, 2024

Character matters—or so we’re often told. It certainly counts in music, […]

Zander, Boston Philharmonic deliver the grandeur and intimacy of “The Planets” – Nov 18, 2024

“Progress depends above all on the temper of the nation,” Anthony […]

An individual “Pathetique” and fresh Mozart from Jordan, Lisiecki and BSO – Nov 15, 2024

To live, Nietzsche tells us, is to suffer, and few 19th-century […]