The reliable ensembles joined forces for the first time in a Jordan Hall concert Friday. Works evoking ocean voyaging, longing, and searching for home balanced a world-premiere setting of extended passages from a new translation of Homer’s Odyssey.    [continued]

Chameleon’s Deborah Boldin characterized the group’s last concert of the season as “in the twilight air, swan songs and farewells,” examining the passage of time through the lens[es] of 5 master composers.”    [continued]

St. Paul Church in Cambridge resonated gloriously Friday during the ensemble’s concert of wind-accompanied works of Bruckner, Stravinsky, and Gabrieli.    [continued]

Boston Chamber Music Society offered up masterful performances of rarely heard works by Ravel, Loeffler, and Chausson on Sunday evening in Sanders Theater.    [continued]

Brahms’s beloved German Requiem served as conductor Jameson Marvin’s Schwanengesang with his eponymous ensemble on Friday at Jordan Hall. Marvin founded The Jameson Singers in 2010 after concluding his distinguished 32-year tenure as Harvard University’s Director of Choral Activities.    [continued]

Who could have imagined that Benjamin Zander would be co-conducting on the Sanders Theater stage yesterday with a jazz-dancing, scatting Doppelgänger? But the success the players and soloists achieved as they adventured forth under Zander’s lofty standard surprised no one.    [continued]

Violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Gloria Chien, both well-known to Boston audiences as soloists and chamber musicians, played a thoughtfully conceived program with passion and a passionate attention to detail at Jordan Hall Saturday night with many distinguished NEC faculty in attendance.    [continued]

The Boston Lyric Opera chose to perform the powerful operatic version of the novel, with music by the Danish composer Poul Ruders, on a brilliantly crafted libretto by Paul Bentley, in the precise basketball court that might have been Atwood’s inspiration for the opening scene of her novel.        [continued]

The young cellist Ifetayo Ali enchanted a sold-out Calderwood Hall at the Gardner in her Boston debut this past Sunday, along with able and intuitive pianist, Lorena Tecu.    [continued]

“Dmitri in the Dark” put the spotlight on Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 6 in G Major, performing it once in the dark, and then again after intermission with two actors and a trio of circus performers at BU Dance Theater Saturday.    [continued]

The culmination of Radius Ensemble’s 20^th season this past Saturday at Longy seemed to focus on locality, and within that spirit, the important intimate connections within the ensemble and with the composers; all but Beethoven attended.    [continued]

Julia Bullock and company at Club Oberon yesterday evening fiercely rendered the vivid American-French entertainer in largely downbeat tones.    [continued]

The Boston University Opera Institute-Glimmerglass co-production of Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen at the Emerson-Cutler Majestic Theater impressed this writer as the most consistently satisfying opera he has seen this season.    [continued]

The Boston Symphony gave thoroughly invigorating accounts of Till Eulenspiegel, Rite of Spring, and with violinist Baiba Skride, Sebastian Currier’s Aether, last night at the Hall.    [continued]

Allison Voth curated a remarkable artistic experience with song recital on Cantata Singers Chamber Series, with works by Amy Beach, Margaret Bonds and Libby Larsen’s cycle My Ántonia among highlights.    [continued]

In Sunday’s Celebrity Series concert at Symphony Hall with the Bell-Isserlis-Denk Trio, we witnessed a thrilling, yet intimate conversation in works of Mendelssohn, Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovitch.    [continued]

Marc-André Hamelin, one of the finest pianists anywhere, radiated cool relaxation and complete passion Sunday at Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport.    [continued]

Boston Baroque’s riveting production of Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea (on Friday evening at Jordan Hall), depicted ethically compromised and amoral characters with beautiful voices    [continued]

Ives’s Third Symphony and Mahler’s Fifth made up Friday’s Symphony Hall bill in what Boston Philharmonic Orchestra founder and conductor Benjamin Zander suggested might be the first time the two pieces have appeared on the same program.    [continued]

To present the essence of Remede de Fortune in a single evening was a real tour de force for Blue Heron’s singers and the musicians of Les Délices at First Church Cambridge on Friday.    [continued]

Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra fine interpretations of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Daniil Trifonov) and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 at Symphony Hall last night.    [continued]

For the second of its season’s three operas showing us Helen of Troy in various circumstances, Odyssey Opera offered a Boston premiere of Richard Strauss’s Die Aegyptische Helena in a concert performance at Jordan Hall last Friday.    [continued]

Making its Gardner debut, the Attacca Quartet electrified the house with verve and sensitivity this Easter Sunday. “Heiliger Dankgesang,” indeed.    [continued]

Lowell House Opera found some success in an updated and perhaps relevant Così during a weeklong run at Agassiz Theater.    [continued]

English conductor Andrew Manze and Italian pianist Francesco Piemontesi (in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19) made BSO debuts last night, as did 20^th-century Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz.    [continued]