Pieces by Thomas Adès, Debussy, Vaughan-Williams,  Smetana, and Elena Langer plus related interviews and videos continued BSO’s season-long Music in Changing Times.    [continued]

By all means stream [through Jan 30^th HERE] Cappella Clausura’s stunning realization of the 1650 Magnificat a Otto Voce from the Salmi a Otto Voce of Donna Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, the abbess of the convent of Santa Radegonda of Milano.    [continued]

Boston Camerata’s An American Christmas 2020 served as a balm and a comfort this week because it captured a unique and infrequently heard repertoire in a historical space of visual and auditory beauty. It functioned both as a replacement for a concert, and as a formal record of a many-years-long performance tradition.    [continued]

Artistic Director Ryan Turner and video director Nathan Troup sent the finale of Emmanuel Music’s three-part Britten Chamber Festival to viewers last night. The stream runs for 60 days.    [continued]

Something of a misbegetting resulted from shoehorning an abridgment of Handel’s Messiah into an aspiringly slick chimeric Covideo to fill a 55-minute public TV slot. Expert singing and playing jousted for screen time with a sometimes inane travelogue of Boston. The H+H – WGBH production runs free for the next couple of months on YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook.    [continued]

The third concert of this streaming BSO season, and the concluding radian of its somewhat disappointing narrative arc on America’s Promise, proffered music by Copland, Tower, Barber, and Adu-Gilmore to illustrate the thematic “optimism and openness as well as resilience and self-reflection.” Marcelo Lehninger carried the baton on December 3^rd.    [continued]

Emmanuel Music’s Britten Chamber Festival streamed Part Two this evening, reminding us of the more witty, more playful, and perhaps more optimistic Britten. Access will continue HERE for two months.    [continued]

The first segment of Emmanuel Music’s Britten Chamber Festival sensitively streamed some of composer’s lesser-known, small-scale vocal and instrumental music. The second and third installments of this festival follow this weekend. All three parts will stream HERE for the next 60 days.    [continued]

Captured live a week ago at ISGM’s Calderwood Hall before 19 persons, Evren Ozel’s virtuosity, clarity and messaging inspired feelings of hope.    [continued]

Thanksgiving Thursday saw the BSO unlock its second “American Promise” stream, in which Thomas Wilkins conducted Harlem Renaissance-centered works by Jessie Montgomery, William Grant Still, Duke Ellington, and chamber music by Osvaldo Golijov.    [continued]

Returning to the virtual stage for “The Shape of Joy,” the Criers put their usual exuberance to good use.    [continued]

With solo pieces for oboe, violin, and piano in compressed time-space, Radius recently livestreamed the out-of-the-ordinary by giving ear to a lesser known contemporary composer cluster.    [continued]

Ending 260 days of silence in Symphony Hall, Ken-David Masur led the BSO in its inaugural installment of “Music in Changing Times,” a new 15-part series of multimedia streaming concerts    [continued]

A be-masked and be-distanced NEC Philharmonia (string orchestra) under guest conductor Christopher Wilkins livestreamed a lively and poised recital of 20^th– and 21^st– century pieces.      [continued]

Guerrilla Opera has embraced online programming this season with a series of “Covid experiments.” As the final event of the Boston New Music Festival, “Dreamwalker, a month-long audio-visual production, combines a group of these experiments in a veritable feast of drama, film, and music.    [continued]

Jamaica Plain Chambermusic welcomed a small but mighty audience to the Church of the Advent on the flat of Beacon Hill on an autumnal Friday night for a currently rare occurrence: in-person chamber music    [continued]

Boston Camerata brings us a virtual confection via Vimeo: Purcell’s Dido and Æneas: An Opera for Distanced Lovers as part of its #SheToo season focused on women in opera. The show, which opened Friday, runs online through November 29^th HERE.    [continued]

Thanks to excellent filmography and sound quality, the Terezin Music Foundation’s annual gala once again shared an important message in the context of a concert which melded works written by Holocaust victim-composers with pieces written before and after. A call went out for Elijah the Prophet and “We Shall Overcome” came as a reply.    [continued]

Instead of broadcasting prerecorded videos or a livestream to open its Covid season, the New England Philharmonic invited Philadelphia-based composer TJ Cole’s for a Zoom discussion and music explication.    [continued]

Fourteen Emmanuel Music players under Ryan Turner transmitted Bernard Labadie’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations on October 24^th. The welcome online feast will remain available on YouTube.    [continued]

Five accomplished organists performed music predominantly written for romantic and symphonic organs in cathedral settings on E.& G.G. Hook & Hastings’s grand Opus 801 (1875) at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Sunday. Watch and listen HERE.    [continued]

Violinist Robyn Bollinger and cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer broadcast “Alone Together: Celebrating Musical Community in Isolation” on October 19^th from A Far Cry’s Jamaica Plain, covering a range of genres in nine compositions including the Four Duettos of J. S. Bach,    [continued]

Promenade Opera Project’s video-chat Fidelio is the kind of event I hope we will all look back on in a year with indulgent smiles, remembering the effort needed to make any kind of performance exist in these times.    [continued]

Imagine moving through a video-game virtual world of animated cityscapes and fantasy lands, populated by animated characters who dance and sing with beautiful human voices. Alice In the Pandemic embraces the realness of virtuality as performative vehicle for a penetratingly timely libretto. The run ends on Tuesday. Click HERE for tickets.      [continued]

Artistry abounded in timbral splendidness from an online quintet of  Pro Artes Orchestra’s principals. The stream remains available HERE for a week.    [continued]