Pianist Marc Ponthus celebrated Russell Sherman’s 91^st birthday with a confounding Hammerklavier alongside a profoud take on Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Klavierstück X at the Gardner last night.    [continued]

Claudio Monteverdi numbers among those rare composers who can be called “complete” because of an ability to create successfully in every style and genre of their times. On Friday night, BEMF streamed works largely from his books 7 and 8 sometimes called madrigals.    [continued]

Amanda Forsythe sang gloriously and ravishingly and the BEMF Chamber Ensemble played with expressive and technical brilliance.    [continued]

There is no surprise that a major program of the 2021 Boston Early Music Festival should be devoted to the commemoration of the 500^th year of Josquin’s passing.    [continued]

For BEMF, video director Jean-Baptiste Béïs and Prismédia brought to filmic reality Doulce Mémoire’s reflection on the life and the musical passions of Leonardo da Vinci. The range of moods and colors drew us back, both visually and aurall, into the world of that most renowned “Renaissance man.”    [continued]

The Boston Early Music Festival’s tripartite keyboard mini-festival streamed powerful and perceptive performances on the clavichord, harpsichord, and fortepiano, respectively from Benjamin Alard, Francesco Corti, and Carmen Leoni.    [continued]

Boston Early Music Festival streamed its Organ Mini-Festival: Leo van Doeselaar on the Arp Schnitger organ from Martinikerk, Groningen, the Netherlands; Catalina Vincens on organetto from Basil; and Benjamin Alard on the Castle Grant Chamber organ from Musée de Provins, France.    [continued]

Boston Lyric and Long Beach Operas check into a surreal motel together… intimate scenes transpire…and that’s only the start of their serialized demi-pop opera desert in.    [continued]

Violinist Angelo Xiang Yu joined pianist Feng Niu for delightful accounts of Beethoven and Mozart duos Saturday at the Gardner. The sonata partners also radiated the glow of the recently affianced.    [continued]

To recognize the opening (reprising) video of the 2021 Boston Early Music (online) Festival we echo the late Virginia Newes’s account from 2017: “The Boston Early Music Festival got off to a glorious start on Sunday afternoon with an imaginative performance of André Campra’s opera-ballet Le Carnaval de Venise at the Emerson/Cutler Majestic Theater.” Click HERE to purchase virtual admission to BEMF’s 16 concerts running through June 13^th.    [continued]

The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, led by music director Cynthia Woods, joined forces with the City Ballet of Boston and the Youth Ballet of Boston for a lavish streamed production of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty.    [continued]

White Snake’s Death by Life streaming “opera” shares personal stories and original artwork of real inmates who find themselves desperately stuck in a wicked system. I appreciated the gesture, but after the brief and impressive overture, much of the show felt oppressively redundant.    [continued]

“From the Cosmos to the Soul: A Celebration of Women's Music” at Illuminate Women's Music Digital Live-Stream sampled multifarious electronics and styles from ten women composers over an hour.    [continued]

The Boston University doctoral pianist offered strong and etched renditions of transcriptions and more last Friday evening in Calderwood Hall on the world’s shiniest-sounding piano. BYO carpeting.    [continued]

The Bacchus Consort is streaming “Musica Hungarica: Baroque Treasures of the Carpathian Basin,” from the De La Motte-Beer Palace, a sumptuous baroque edifice in Budapest. The consort’s members distinguish themselves without exception in this well-made video offering, and the 25-year-old artistic director Schallinger-Foidl Artúr shows imagination well beyond his years.    [continued]

The pianist’s concert for the Chinese Foundation for Performing Arts at the Gardner Museum’s Calderwood Hall was seriously serious, solemn even, and super sensitive, with power, richness, and a deliberateness that brought Emil Gilels to mind.    [continued]

Live streaming French Baroque gems from Trinity Lutheran Church in Worcester yesterday, the Musicians of the Old Post Road ensemble continued its impassioned advocacy of works often overlooked by other ensembles.    [continued]

In Jamaica Plain Saxophone Quartet’s virtually tendered “Digital Environments,” oil spills,  sun flares, geometric configurations, data, and climate models admixed with real-time graphical programming.    [continued]

Performances by the 26-year-old American pianist, composer, and improviser feature unusually thoughtful range, and in this Celebrity Series event an astounding, must-see 25-year-old modernist throwback.    [continued]

Sixty socially distanced people witnessed cellist Brannon Cho and pianist  Eric Lu duo debut on Saturday night at the Gardner Museum for the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts. A concert stream will follow in a week or two.      [continued]

Andris Nelsons and our favorite orchestra wrapped up its exploration of music of the period between the two World Wars. Running through April, this stream features Russian or Russian-born composers Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Eda Rapoport    [continued]

Ten lucky listeners had heard Tchaikovsky Competition silver medalist George Li honor his teacher Russell Sherman with Beethoven and Liszt. I watched later via YouTube.    [continued]

From Thursday, March 18^th through Saturday, April 17^th, David Robertson leads the BSO online in an all-French theme. “A Fragile Peace: Between the Wars, Episode 2” linked Milhaud, Ravel and Honegger with a soupçon of Boulanger.    [continued]

The BSO ’s amalgam of Weill, Hindemith and Florence Price would never have seen the stage of Symphony Hall in a business-as-usual season.    [continued]

The Boston Classical Trio’s very enjoyable video of various 17^th-century works from Italy, Austria and Germany in the beautiful Salem Athenæum is running through Sunday.    [continued]