Boston Classical Review1d
Tilson Thomas’s Whitman cycle fares best in BSO’s mixed evening of debuts
Nothing sounded dated about either Tilson Thomas’s edgy, dramatically alert musical language or Whitman’s poems, first ...
Boston Classical Review3d
Seraphim provides fitful illumination with “Aspects of Light”
Seraphim utilized the space to its utmost in O nata lux de lumine by Kerry Andrew, the sopranos in the back apse initially ...
Boston Classical Review7d
Midori brings fire and intensity to Celebrity Series program
The duo’s first offering, Schumann’s Stücke im Volkston was a late substitution for Che Buford’s Resonances of Spirit. Though ...
Boston Classical Review5d
Boston Artists Ensemble puts across the energy and promise of early Beethoven
There is a common misconception about the music Ludwig van Beethoven wrote during the so-called “early period” of his career in the 1790s. To wit that, because he spent those years studying with Franz ...
Boston Classical Review13d
Worlds collide in Lang Lang’s high-contrast return to Boston
Lang Lang remains a classical music superstar—especially among the younger listeners—and the pianist’s sold-out appearance ...
Boston Classical Review11d
Zander, Boston Phil Youths find triumph in the tragedy of Mahler’s Sixth
Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that, given the BPYO’s extraordinary talent level and their supposedly youthful ...
Boston Classical Review7d
Kim makes impressive BSO debut in varied works of wartime
The Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a program of Liadov, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff Thursday evening at Symphony Hall. Led by conductor Eun Sun Kim in her BSO debut and featuring pianist Inon ...