Today at the dramatic Eustis Mansion in Milton, MassOpera finishes its sold-out, 18-performance run of a condensed, tightly-wound, in-your-face La Traviata that successfully sustained Verdi’s narrative drama.    [continued]

Last night’s Boston Symphony concert began with a quiet jolt: Andris Nelsons announced the death of Bernard Haitink, the honored and beloved BSO Conductor Emeritus. Then we heard satisfying Gubaidulina and revelatory Rachmaninoff.    [continued]

The hugely successful a cappella male chorus Chanticleer made a joyous return to the Shalin Liu Performance Center on Sunday with eclectic trademark repertoire—stimulating and challenging in equal measure.    [continued]

Eric Nathan led the New England Philharmonic in a vibrant, sophisticated, and subtle concert at All Saints Brookline on Saturday that fittingly celebrated the return of the orchestra to live performance.    [continued]

No need to hide Lowell Liebermann’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2021) between two conservative safe havens. Boston Chamber Music Society’s Commissioning Club made a great choice. The Saint-Saëns and Haydn pleasers that surrounded it at Jordan Hall on Sunday hewed to the BCMS high standards.      [continued]

Before Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony unfolded in the BPO performance Friday, Benjamin Zander accepted the Bruckner Society of America’s Society’s Julio Kilenyi Medal of Honor. There can hardly have been a more deserving recipient.    [continued]

After 60 minutes of Strauss, Sibelius, and Still from the BSO with Andris Nelsons and Lisa Batiashvili, we left Symphony Hall last night with gratification after our two-year collective incarceration.    [continued]

The Boston Symphony Orchestra fittingly shared a “life-affirming” concert of Mozart and Strauss Friday under the guidance of Andris Nelsons which featured he Naughton sisters’ debut on twin pianos.    [continued]

Brooklyn Rider gave powerful and sympathetic accounts of recent works on Thursday at the WGBH Calderwood Studio. The first of ensemble’s three-concert residency at the Boston Celebrity Series will remain available HERE until 7 pm on Wednesday, October 13^th.    [continued]

The freelance orchestra played the Eroica on a hillock in Carlisle’s Great Brook Farm State Park on September 19^th to surprisingly satisfying effect.        [continued]

Guerilla Opera premiered composer Gabriele Vanoni’s and librettist Ewa Chrusciel’s new chamber opera Ellis last night at Boston’s Old South Meeting House. Once again, Guerilla innovated in the chamber opera field.    [continued]

Under the Leader Bank Pavillion big top, “Cav” came across with great dramatic force. Closes after today’s 3:00 performance.    [continued]

Anne-Sophie Mutter, Andris Nelsons, and John Williams, with Beethoven’s Overture, “The Consecration of the House,” John Williams’ Violin Concerto No. 2, and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, apotheosized opening night in re-consecrating the BSO house last night.    [continued]

Daniel Kurganov, violin; and Constantine Finehouse, piano, offered a condensed version of “Autumn Affection” a couple of days ago for Music Mondays at the Scandinavian Center in Waltham. The duo plans its recital debut at Merkin Hall NYC on October 12^th with the full version.    [continued]

Winsor Music’s oboist Peggy Pearson, clarinetist Rane Moore, violinist Gabriela Diaz, and cellist Jan Muller-Szeraws along with pianist-composer David Coleman interpreted dance—tango, hip-hop, or whatever—as lighter fare last night at Harvard-Epworth Church.    [continued]

The threesome’s COVID-themed “In the Face of Isolation II” jarringly juxtaposed Grieg and Schumann with Feldman and Cage last night at Longy; technical refinement and plenteousness of emotive engagement obtained.    [continued]

‘Innovatively thematic, masterful and emotional’ might begin to convey the WOW of Simone Dinnerstein’s wonderfully assorted recital Sunday at Shalin Liu which closed this summer’s treasurable Rockport Chamber Music Festival.    [continued]

One day after its NYC season opener, the New York Classical Players made a Jordan Hall debut for the Korean Cultural Society under the rubric “Rising Stars Concert 2021.” Rigor, passion and adventure ensued.    [continued]

Our far-flung correspondent discovers the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Stacy Garrop’s Spectacle of Light, and Chicago’s Orchestra of the Baroque.    [continued]

Nothing stood between the Han-Setzer-Finckel ensemble and their création of the Ghost and Dumky trios at the Shalin Liu last night.    [continued]

Redressing a 20-year absence, the Cavani String Quartet ended the Maverick Concerts season on Sunday with stimulating and idiomatic playing of Beethoven, Daron Hagen, and Dvořák.    [continued]

Pianist Stewart Goodyear, a rising composer and keyboard superman, shared Beethoven’s star designation Thursday with James Ehnes, a cognoscenti’s sovereign of the violin, in the Kreutzer and Spring sonatas at Shalin Liu.    [continued]

The Boston Landmarks Orchestra finished its 2021 summer series on the Esplanade Friday with an all-American program in which Music Director Christopher Wilkins mixed familiar and beloved pieces with nearly forgotten works by 19th- and 20^th-century composers and one world premiere.    [continued]

The familiar and much-admired Borromeo String Quartet lived up to high expectations Sunday afternoon at the Maverick, playing in ways that force one to listen carefully and giving this reviewer a deeply rewarding experience    [continued]

At Rockport on Friday, the still-young, now veteran pianist showed command of all aspects of the art, but more to come.    [continued]