The Sebago Long Lake Music Festival opened its 47th season Tuesday at the Deertrees Theater in Harrison, Maine with exhilarating and commendable examples from Amy Beach, neoclassical Stravinsky and the Dvořák. [continued]
Sandwiched between Copland’s Quiet Place and Third Symphony, Jan Lisiecki, a lanky 23-year-old budding superstar from Canada, thrilled the Tanglewood audience Friday night with a vivid, colorful, beautifully shaped traversal of Grieg’s Piano Concerto [continued]
American pianist Richard Goode played a remarkable recital at Rockport Music’s Shalin Liu Performance Center Saturday. Not for a single moment did he fail to enthrall and enlighten. [continued]
Morningside Music Bridge faculty successfully phrased complex longings, losses, frenzies and road trips Saturday evening at Jordan Hall. [continued]
The Mercury Orchestra, an accomplished volunteer contingent directed by the musical polymath Channing Yu, focused on late-romantic works ranging from romance through marriage, illicit love and ecstasy to death Sunday at Sanders; they did not disappoint. [continued]
Last Sunday’s Boston Pops program of John Williams’s music, with the composer conducting half in collaboration with Anne-Sophie Mutter, drew a substantial crowd. [continued]
“Reimagining Flamenco” provided a refreshing and largely effective offering of folk song arrangements by pianist Serouj Kradjian and guitarist Grisha Goryachev at Shalin Liu last night. [continued]
The BSO billed Saturday night’s concert at Tanglewood as a celebration of the life of Andre Previn, the polymath pianist (of both jazz and classical repertory), composer, and conductor, not to mention the sometime husband of the evening’s soloist, Anne-Sophie Mutter. [continued]
The violinist took the Ozawa Hall stage in a strapless blue-grey gown; equal parts formal and whimsical, it would turn out to be a subtle emblem of the exploration to come. [continued]
Andris Nelsons led the TMCO in Shostakovich and the world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Concerto for Trumpet Monday at Ozawa Hall; TMC conducting fellows Nathan Aspinall and Killian Farrell also took turns at the helm. [continued]
In the unlikely setting of Time and Space Ltd. in Hudson, Aston Magna dispensed a real treat, filling a small film theater on Friday with an audience almost as large as its entire previous season at Bard [continued]
The Escher String Quartet gave pleasure in full measure yesterday in Haydn, Shostakovitch and Smetana. [continued]
Pianist Max Levinson wowed at Rockport’s Shalin Liu Performance Center Sunday as soloist and in collaborations with pianist Sae Yoon Chon, cellist Andés Díaz and violinist Barry Shiffman. [continued]
Emanuel Ax opened the summer’s first Koussevitzky Shed concert with a Mozart concerto, after which Nelsons and the BSO gave Mahler’s Fifth with real joy and quality. [continued]
The first-tier foursome went deep into discourse for Mozart’s “Dissonance,” Bartók’s Fourth, and a Beethoven “Razumovsky” before a sold-out Shalin Liu Performance Center Saturday. [continued]
John Harbison and others conducted the TMC Fellows and friends Monday, in the season’s first vocal program, which honored Sanford Sylvan and inaugurated the new Linde Center. Discussions over coffee prepared for the Coffee Cantata . [continued]
The JCT Trio delivered beauty and thrills aplenty at Rockport on Sunday. [continued]
Eliot Fisk’s June 29th Jordan Hall recital sailed forth without being encumbered by its great length. This, the second to last concert of the 14th Boston Guitar Fest, featured the Artistic Director in a potpourri of music from four different centuries. [continued]
Maverick Concerts in Woodstock, just beginning its 104th season, has some unusual features this year. Its Sunday concerts are all classical music, but the Saturday evenings will all be something else. Yesterday featured the return of the Shanghai Quartet, the longest running ensemble in the current Maverick schedule. [continued]
Central to the Brookline Consort concert of the music of many faiths that took place at June 22nd at United Parish Church in Brookline, and the inspiration for its title, stood Ernest Bloch’s Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service). [continued]
Such was the energy in the hallowed, if slightly empty Jordan Hall on Wednesday when Robert Levin presented a solo performance for the 14th-annual Boston Guitar Fest. [continued]
Halcyon Music Festival’s “The Colors of Spain” allowed Friday’s listeners in St. John’s Episcopal Church, Portsmouth to hear chamber music of some Spanish composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who are better known for their solo piano pieces and, especially, their vocal works. [continued]
Cellist Pieter Wispelwey, pianist Pei-Shan Lee, and violinist Benjamin Bowman animated works by Brahms, Ravel, Debussy, and Brahms on Saturday night at Shalin Liu. [continued]
London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane artfully sculpted and brought to life Chopin’s 21 Nocturnes in a mini-marathon recital on Friday night for the Rockport Chamber Music Festival. [continued]
For an attractive hour at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, Yosif Feigelson channeled musings for solo cello in a small room housing Jacques’ Menagerie wall-lined with fabulous prints. [continued]