Chamber Mozart to Shostakovich to Brahms to monster encore gave our correspondent some musical whiplash plus the hungries.    [continued]

Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane made its very welcome American debut at Bard.

Andris Nelsons amalgamated a strange Friday night at Tanglewood of minor Mozart, undead Shostakovich, and revelatory Ravel.    [continued]

Stefan Jackiw and Jeremy Denk paid a special homage to Ives by inviting a male vocal quartet, the Hudson Shad to share the Ozawa Hall Stage with them Thursday.    [continued]

A long-awaited performance in Ozawa Hall on Wednesday paid tribute to Andre Previn, who died while still working on Penelope, a monodrama planned for Renee Fleming and the Emerson Quartet; they were joined by pianist Simone Dinnerstein, and actress Uma Thurman.    [continued]

Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall was full to bursting Wednesday night for a dramatic contemporary recital by the Emerson String Quartet and friends.    [continued]

After Saturday night’s excellent traversal of the Enigma Variations, Renee Fleming joined the orchestra for Kevin Put’s The Brightness of Light.    [continued]

Boston Midsummer Opera’s take on Rossini’s La Cenerentola sparks and sparkles in Watertown. Repeats Friday and Sunday.    [continued]

The second installment of the five-week Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival, Tuesday in Harrison, Maine, pursued a theme of unusual timbral associations in slightly recherché 18^th-century repertoire, with a 19^th-century favorite to cap it off.    [continued]

The Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra’s Monday evening concert on July 15^th contained, as usual, pieces conducted by the two Tanglewood Conducting Fellows, a premiere of a commissioned work and a major symphony in the standard repertory.    [continued]

Fanfares at Main Gate, an Instrument Playground in the Tent Club, free walking tours of the grounds, two chamber music concerts in Ozawa Hall, and the BUTI Young Artists Orchestra and Chorus the Shed, made for quite a full and enjoyable July 23^rd.    [continued]

On another perfect Tanglewood Sunday afternoon (July 14^th), the Koussevitzky Shed concert began with a Beethoven symphony and ended with the sensuous “Dance of the Seven Veils” from Strauss’s Salome. Between these came a challenging trumpet concerto written for and played by international superstar Håkan Hardenberger.    [continued]

The Catalyst Quartet, an excellent contemporary-focused foursome, made its Maverick Concerts debut on Sunday with adept performances of Bach and Glass, before the Israeli pianist Daniel Gortler played three late Brahms Intermezzi and joined the foursome for the Franck Quintet.    [continued]

Aston Magna’s selections and execution at Friday’s concert at Time and Space Ltd. in Hudson NY,  “The World of Henry Purcell,” provided ample evidence to convince anyone who didn’t already know it, of the composer’s genius.    [continued]

When two forces of nature, mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and the esteemed Venice Baroque Orchestra, made friendly jousts on the Shalin Liu stage Friday July 12^th, dazzling fireworks ensued.    [continued]

With the vocal power of four major soloists and the brilliance of the TFC, Nelsons led the BSO in a majestic take on Verdi’s dramatic Manzoni Requiem at the shed Saturday.    [continued]

The Sebago Long Lake Music Festival opened its 47^th 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]