Concord Chamber Music Society treated its followers to a stellar Sunday afternoon with the Juilliard String Quartet in music of Brahms, Mozart and Dutillieux.    [continued]

Tango nuevo bandoneon specialist Juanjo Mosalini explored works of his own and Piazzola’s Mosalini’s  with Gisele Ben-Dor and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra at Sanders on Sunday.    [continued]

Collage presented five composers at Longy Sunday whose strikingly different styles all showed real cohesion. David Hoose served as the ever-unperturbed master of the entire ensemble, as he has been doing for years now with first-class skill and taste.    [continued]

Friday night’s concert in Jordan Hall continued A Far Cry’s astonishing run, this time in partnership with the fabulous soprano Sonja Dutoit Tengblad and burnished bass-baritone Dashon Burton in Takemitsu’s Requiem along with Shostakovich’s 14^th Symphony.    [continued]

Conductor Alain Altinoglu and organist Thierry Escaich showcased Symphony Hall’s Æolian-Skinner-Foley-Baker in works of Poulenc and Saint-Saëns, plus some Debussy from the regular forces in a seamless program Friday afternoon which found the BSO in full bloom.    [continued]

In a solemn Sanders Theater Sunday, the Boston Chamber Music Society never strayed too far from themes of mortality, though the vivacious and generous music making from the familiar players mitigated the somber context of the repertoire.    [continued]

Boston Artists Ensemble’s performances of the last two Mozart string quintets in Salem’s Hamilton Hall on Friday delivered the goods, while placing character and presence ahead of intonation and polish. The concert repeated Sunday on Brookline.    [continued]

Brazilian guest conductor Marcelo Lehninger and the BSO essayed the Beethoven’s Fifth Concerto with Spanish soloist Javier Perianes, and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony last night.    [continued]

“New” Christmas music from 200-plus years ago captured the spirit of the season in Musicians of the Old Post Road’s concert on Sunday afternoon in the First Unitarian Church of Worcester.    [continued]

Skylark Vocal Ensemble observed the Christmas holiday on Saturday at First Parish Church in Weston by paying homage to the great tradition of the Lessons and Carols ceremony at the King’s College.    [continued]

Friday night a crowded Jordan Hall witnessed the Boston debut of Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello, together with his sister, Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano. While he headlined, her star shone equally for the Celebrity Series of Boston.    [continued]

Vioinist Ayano Ninomiya and cellist Blaise Déjardin highlighted Longwood Symphony Orchestra’s delightfully varied program at Jordan Hall Saturday.    [continued]

Castle of Our Skin’s “Portrait of Composer Trevor Weston” at Longy last night revealed an exciting, insightful, accessible and connected oeuvre.    [continued]

Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s “Slow Dreams of Eternity” at First Church of Boston on Sunday well and truly justified my agony of finding a place to park in the Back Bay.    [continued]

Tom Cipullo’s operatic theater piece Glory Denied portrays the martyrdom of the longest-suffering American Vietnam PoW. Saturday night’s student production of this God and country and broken marriage saga found ardent supporters at BoCo Berklee’s East Coast orchestral premiere.    [continued]

Tallis Scholars returned to St. Paul Church in Cambridge Friday for the Boston Early Music Festival with devotional texts that have endured through centuries of Catholic worship.    [continued]

Boston Baroque’s Messiah traversal yesterday in Jordan Hall delivered something serviceable, but short of sublimity, except for the two transcendent female soloists.    [continued]

The oldest continuously performing arts organization in America scored another first on Thursday night by presenting the six Brandenburg  Concerti of Bach as the first concert at Klarman Hall at the Harvard Business School.    [continued]

Conductor Masaaki Suzuki 鈴木 雅明, trained in improvisation and infused with a reported Calvinist bent, delivered a refreshing slant on H + H’s hallowed Messiah tradition. The early-instrument contingent, chorus, and remarkable soloists covered themselves in glory at Symphony Hall Sunday.    [continued]

Boston Early Music Festival’s virtuoso chamber ensemble treated us to a delectable evening of 17^th-century-opera selections based on the Orfeo legend. The performance I heard Friday at Jordan Hall will repeat on Sunday at 3:00.    [continued]

Christian Zacharias served as both superb conductor and pianist in a cleverly conceived amalgam of Brahms and Schumann with the BSO Friday.    [continued]

In “The Voice of the Cello,” cellist Joseph Gotoff and pianist SangYoung Kim explored Romantic and late-Romantic tropes and impressions from vocal and vocalise transcriptions at St. John’s Episcopal Church for a moment of respite and warmth on Sunday.    [continued]

“Now you know why I love to live in California,” said John Adams to this reviewer after the LA Phil Concert Saturday in Symphony Hall.    [continued]

Watching and hearing a very satisfying production of Argento’s Postcard from Morocco in NEC’s Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theater Friday felt surprisingly similar to seeing Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.    [continued]

Stefan Jackiw joined Benjamin Zander and the BPYO for HIP Mendelssohn before the orchestra responded like true believers to Zander’s interpretation of Mahler’s First.    [continued]