Violinist Randall Goosby and pianist Zhu Wang took a turn at Ashmont Hill Chamber Music on Sunday with “pieces I love.”    [continued]

Thalea String Quartet’s “trans-Atlantic encounters, ” with composers blending European modes of expression with American modes, appealed to first-time listeners as well as seasoned aficionados at the Gardner Sunday.    [continued]

Jamie Kirsch and Lisa Graham led 241 singers and players of Chorus pro Musica and Metropolitan Chorale in little-known Kodály, Janáček, and Mendelssohn at Jordan Hall last night for quite the choral feast.    [continued]

With Bernard Labadie at the helm, Guy Fishman as soloist, and a compositional array spanning 1750 to 1807, the Handel and Haydn Society presented its 2,478^th concert last night at Symphony Hall. Repeated Sunday at 3:00    [continued]

With a French first half and a Russian second, Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Thursday concert under Andris Nelsons,wowed with Mitsuko Uchida in the Ravel Concerto, a Betsy Jolas premiere, and a Shostakovich symphony.    [continued]

Alchemist Laurence Lesser got great reactions in the mixture of Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn on Monday at Jordan Hall.    [continued]

The Boston Early Music Festival’s welcome re-engagement of Vox Luminis in a program of German motets, representing most of the Bach family tree, brought great pleasure to the First Church, Cambridge crowd Saturday.    [continued]

The Belgian period vocal ensemble Vox Luminis brought its North American tour to a close on Saturday with “The Bach Dynasty,” a set of less-familiar music by members of J.S. Bach’s family, plus a concluding cantata by Johann Sebastian himself, for the Boston Early Music Festival at First Church, Congregational on Saturday.    [continued]

With contralto Emily Marvosh in the title role, the Cantata Singers Chorus and Orchestra gave us a Solomon for the ages Saturday night at Jordan Hall.    [continued]

Victor Rosenbaum selected Mozart works for his Sunday evening at Jordan Hall with violist Kim Kashkashian, Laurence Lesser on cello and Kristopher Tong on violin.    [continued]

After hearing the ensemble twice this weekend in the seaport district of Boston, I am delighted to report that, like a well-seasoned string quartet, Blue Heron simply gets better and better.    [continued]

Yclept “American Noir,” the Criers’ Jordan Hall outing on Friday contained music written by American and American-resident composers in the tight span from 1936-1960.    [continued]

Leipzig Week at Symphony Hall concluded with saturated, gratified takes on instrumental virtuosity, virtue-bending eroticism, and a whiff of the divine.    [continued]

An excited audience became increasingly euphoric over the fervent takes on Rachmaninofff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich at Seully Hall on Friday.    [continued]

My musical odyssey to the Huntington Avenue Theater last night led me to the apparent North American premiere of Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra (Mary, Queen of England) by Giovanni Pacini (1796-1867), a prolific and once-famous composer not one of whose notes I had heard before in any genre. Repeats Sunday at 2:00.    [continued]

Back in February 2018, we got a “Leipzig Week in Boston” at Symphony Hall in recognition of the fact that the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra now share the same music director, Andris Nelsons. This past Tuesday, to a packed house, Nelsons led the GHO in the Leipzig-relatated Mahler’s Blumine, the Schumann Cello Concerto, with Gautier Capuçon, the Overture to Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 (Scottish).    [continued]

In the last of four performances at four different locations, Skylark Vocal Ensemble gave Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (also known as Vespers) on Sunday at St. Paul’s, Cambridge.    [continued]

Blue Heron’s “The Sweet Sound of Medieval Song” taught how to listen to medieval polyphony with young and old ears at Brandeis University’s Berlin Chapel yesterday as part of an symposium among theorists, scribes, scholars, and performers.    [continued]

Violinist Robyn Bollinger, who strives to strengthen and reinvigorate the relationships among audience, performer and music, performed “Virtuoso Violin” for Lifetime Learning Sound of Music Performance Series at Temple Shalom in West Newton Monday.    [continued]

Until Saturday evening in Jordan Hall, I knew the Jerusalem Quartet only through two of its recordings, the recent Yiddish Caberet and a luminous Debussy/Ravel disc. It is my pleasure to say the ensemble sounded even better live for the Celebrity Series of Boston The Quartet’s members are Alexander Pavlosvsky and Sergei Bresler, violins; Ori    [continued]

Skylark Vocal Ensemble delivered Rachmaninoff’s a cappella masterpiece, the All-Night Vigil, with conviction, vigor, disarming earnestness, and three Russian basses at Chestnut Hill’s intimate Church of the Redeemer the day before Vancouver’s Pacific Baroque opened BEMF’s season.    [continued]

Mary Beekman began her 40^th season with Musica Sacra this weekend at First Church Cambridge with a contemplative, orchestrally rich Monteverdi Vespers.    [continued]

Music Director Martin Pearlman led the orchestra of period instruments in a welcome display of instrumental and vocal virtuosity Friday at Jordan Hall, where we found soprano soloist Amanda Forsythe at the top of her game in a group of dazzling arias.    [continued]

Celebrity Series of Boston and BSO co-presented Gewandhausorchester Leipzig as Andris Nelsons led the GHO in Schubert’s “The Great” C Major Symphony and Brahms’s Double Concerto; violinist Leonidas Kavakos and cellist Gautier Capuçon took the solo parts.    [continued]

Last night the Mertz Trio mixed its media with varied success, though the musical interpretations at the Plimpton-Shattock Black Box always carried great artistry.    [continued]