A string trio plus a low brass quartet transmited a pleasantly surprising mix of timbres and styles from Studio E.    [continued]

Among the increasingly concert-like videos from Tanglewood, Wednesday night’s Danish String Quartet broadcast may have attained the apex of this verismo. Available until August 12^th.    [continued]

Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax brought nourishment for body, mind and soul in their broadcast from Tanglewood to this wise consumer. Available until August 8^th.    [continued]

Three violists delivered a Tanglewood stream highlighting the misunderstood instrument. The outing of Hindemith, Kay, Clarke and Berio runs through August 7^th.    [continued]

The violin and piano duo of Augustin Hadelich and Orion Weiss played Debussy, Brahms, and Adams for the Tanglewood cameras Saturday. With talent to spare, the artistic pair gave exciting, tight, enthralling, and even transcendent readings. Available online until August 1^st.    [continued]

Violinists Victor Romanul and Tatiana Dimitriades collaborated with pianist Jonathan Bass and a quartet of other BSO players to spotless effect in the latest transmission from Tanglewood. Available through the 31^st.    [continued]

Wednesday night’s webstream from Tanglewood featured the ensemble in new works and a Beethoven movement performed in the new-music style.    [continued]

Tanglewood-in-quarantine continued, as violist and violinist  Pinchas Zuckerman, cellist Amanda Forsyth, and pianist Bryan Wagorn, took us on a trip which, from start to finish, provided a delightful way to spend an hour on a humid Saturday night. Nicole Cabell introduced music of Glière, Kodály, Paradis, Fauré and Beethoven.    [continued]

Friday night’s pre-recorded chamber concert featuring BSO players seemed even shorter than its 50-minute runtime.The works by Loeffler, Ravel and Gabriella Lena Frank will remain on bso.org until the 24^th.    [continued]

Joy at performing together radiated from the brothers Jussens’ Concertgebouw recital, recorded before a socially distanced audience of 350 two weeks prior to this airing on the 16^th at the Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival –A Summer Tradition Transformed. Available online for a week.    [continued]

The Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) and the new Tanglewood Learning Institute have come up with variegated strategies to provide online substitutes for their intended tangible offerings. Viewers and listeners, though, must navigate Odyssian shoals before coming ashore on the webstream.    [continued]

At Tanglewood Online 2020, we witness a performer who is just too good. “For those who like that sort of thing,” said Miss Brodie … “that is the sort of thing they like.”    [continued]

For virtual Tanglewood this summer, the English pianist offers a wonderfully pointed tour of the master’s museum of miniature harmonies and effects.    [continued]

Though we cannot visit that Yellow Barn in the Vermont woods this summer, its worthies nevertheless found a way to transmit some measure of joy to us.      [continued]

The 3^rd Annual Harvard Music Festival, curated last week by Fivesparks, went by in virtual spaces [primarily Zoom] with astoundingly infrequent hiccups, and  showed off a vibrantly alive musical community in Harvard, MA.    [continued]

Juventas New Music Ensemble designed its season finale “Alone Together” with the current human assemblage restrictions in mind, attempting both to simulate the experience of live performance and to capitalize on the unique potentialities of a Futura Studios as a digital performance space.    [continued]

Yo-Yo Ma performed all six Bach cello Suites Sunday from WGBH’s Fraser Studio to television, radio and streaming audiences.    [continued]

White Snake Productions’ hour-plus event packed more of an emotional punch than last year’s first “Sing Out Strong” set of ten new songs. This hybrid, multimedia experiment has set a new standard for online concerts in the age of pandemic.    [continued]

The ever bar-raising concert host Groupmuse broadcast guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan on April 3^rd to 70 people across the world through a webcam.    [continued]

Boston Lyric Opera’s recent Norma dress rehearsal recording, sent to us wirelessly by WCRB, came up to high sonic standards, though it lacked the excitement produced by the interaction of singers and players with a live audience. The stream will be available for a month on WCRB and on the BLO website.    [continued]

Turangalîla may not be the most important piece of music composed anywhere since Le sacre du printemps, as Koussevitzky supposedly said, but it remains breathtakingly pretentious in a way that is fully refreshing even though exhausting. And, we may note that it first took life with our own orchestra.    [continued]

With piccolo’s piercing trills, trumpet’s penetrating drills, timpani’s thundering fills, orchestra’s tutti tuning, and patrons’ neglect of the intimate and considerate whisper, concert halls reach a colossal crescendo even before the downbeat.    [continued]

The Slosberg Music Center provided a live-stream to Guerilla Opera’s “Emergence Fellowship Showcase”  closed performance on Saturday night.    [continued]

To a largely empty Symphony Hall (family and friends of the orchestra were admitted) the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under Benjamin Zander took on the ambitious program of Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique for live-streaming apparatus; it worked some of the time.    [continued]

Larry Thomas Bell, a longtime presence in Boston now teaching at Berklee and, quite pertinently, one of this area’s most prominent neo-tonal composers, premiered his 24 Preludes and Fugues in all the key at Jordan Hall on Sunday. A tag team of four gifted pianists did the 12 numbers.    [continued]