Or so it sounded on Sunday afternoon, when the Viano Quartet assayed the score as part of their Celebrity Series debut at Groton Hill Music’s Meadow Hall. Winners of this year’s prestigious Avery ...
The night’s big item was the latter’s Requiem, heard in its 1948 version for organ, choir, and soloists. Originally commissioned as an orchestral tone poem by the Vichy regime, Duruflé’s score ...
That’s not to say that he was ever thrown by the Variations’ demands. The 2022 Van Cliburn Competition Gold Medalist is an electrifying pianist for whom vertiginous hand crossings and dense ...
The Celebrity Series of Boston presents the Viano Quartet performing works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Webern, and Shostakovich 3 p.m. November 2 at Groton Hill Music’s Meadow Hall. celebrityseries.org ...
What allows great classical musicians to endure is not merely fidelity to tradition, but their ability to reveal something personal and unique within these historical pieces. Baritone Matthias Goerne ...
Pianist Alessandro Deljavan, a frequent BPO collaborator, brought both technical command and intense introspection to the ...
Opening with the gauzy halo of Rachmaninoff’s “Bogoroditse Djevo,” the Back Bay Chorale ushered its near-capacity audience ...
That the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra has made a habit of performing the symphonies of Gustav Mahler shouldn’t blind one to the fact that doing so is completely out of the ordinary: this music ...
The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under founding conductor Benjamin Zander opened their season Sunday at Symphony Hall with an intense program devoted to the relationship between old and new.
Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks? The Boston Symphony Orchestra—now in its 144 th season—trotted out a fresh one with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk on Thursday night: eschewing the usual ...
Tianhui Ng’s tenure as the New England Philharmonic’s new music director kicked off in style Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall. Granted, it was just one concert, but on the merits the new era looks a ...
The Handel and Haydn Society might be the country’s oldest performing arts institution, but it certainly is projecting—and performing with–the vigor of youth this week. On Monday, the ensemble ...