Ensemble132 with featured pianist Sahun Sam Hong essayed Beethoven and Stravinsky at NEC’s Williams Hall last night in the eighth concert of the 2023 Chinese Performing Arts Summer Festival. [continued]

Bruce Brubaker took to the Williams Hall stage last night for the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts and played 70 minutes of Philip Glass. [continued]

Bruce Liu delivered exciting keyboard works spanning four centuries tied together by each composer’s innovations on Wednesday night in Ozawa Hall, [continued]

The Dalí Quartet’s Maverick Concerts debut on Sunday afternoon, with pieces exclusively from the Latino repertoire including an in-depth exploration of two works from the mid-century, delighted from start to finish. [continued]

The masterful duo of cellist Hai-Ye Ni and pianist Xun Pan, brought well-honed skills to welcome fare to Williams Hall on Monday in the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts series. [continued]

Psychopomp Ensemble, duo pianists Xiaopei Xu and Chi Wei Lo,  shared a  plethora of musical styles with Saturday night’s hugely enthusiastic Foundation of Chinese Performing Arts audience. [continued]

Gidon Kremer and his group of young Balto-Slavic collaborators performed to a large Russian-speaking contingent in a packed Rockport Chamber Music Festival on Saturday. [continued]

Tanglewood Sunday afternoons shine as social affairs. This one was up to par, starting with charmingly tongue-tied opening remarks by Andris Nelsons, who compensated in spontaneity for what he lacked in eloquence, as he conveyed the importance of rain “for the vegetables” to the lawn throngs, just as the first drops of un-forecast rain began [continued]

Early quartets of Haydn and Schoenberg alongside the premiere of a collaborative commission from Deak-Espaillat wanted rapt attention last night as Newburyport Chamber Music Festival Artists provided high-caliber performances at  St. Paul’s Church. [continued]

The young and starry-eyed cohort ― likely boosted by the fan club of the star pianist Seong-Jin Cho ― noticeably reduced the average age of the audience in the Shed on Saturday night.  Susanna Mälkki, the worldly chief conductor of Helsinki Philharmonic, took the stand. [continued]

Hao Rao opened the 2023 concert series of the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts to a packed Williams Hall this Thursday, excelling in his all-Chopin recital, comprising not only all four ballades, but also other of the master’s fireworks before encoring with jaw-dropping mastery in Horowitz’s Carmen Fantasy. [continued]

Tanglewood fellowship composers have once again provided scores for some part or parts of silent films. Linde Center Studio E hosted them on July 30^th as a small orchestra underscored. [continued]

Blending works by Paul Ben Haim, Beethoven, Matan Porat, and Mendelssohn, the Ariel Quartet demonstrated its prowess at Kehillath Israel in Brookline last night. [continued]

The Verona Quartet made its Maverick debut on Sunday, with “Italian Adventures,” a programmatic deviation (but not really!) from the Latino emphasis in the rest of the season. This adventure took us to present-day Italy and the origins of Latino—the word and the culture—i.e., Latin, the ancient language that dominated the world throughout the Roman [continued]

Peruvian pianist Priscila Navarro lit up the night on Saturday at Maverick with a solo recital of ferociously demanding works from the Latino repertoire of the past and the present. [continued]

Inmo Yang’s great performances of Debussy, Janacek, and Franck with pianist Yun Janice Lu at Williams Hall yesterday left an indelible mark on the hearts of all. [continued]

Four women from different parts of the world and different cultures, who have been widely successful in getting their music performed, were featured at the Festival of Contemporary Music last week. [continued]

After the electrifying enthusiasm of the music of Gabriela Lena Frank and Béla Bartok on the first day we were transported into the frigid Northern stillness that infuses the music of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. [continued]

Held together by a most intriguing common element in the slightly recherché playlist, Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival delivered in grand style on Tuesday. [continued]

The Danish String Quartet pillaged only occasionally at the Maverick on Sunday. [continued]

Christopher Wilkins curated and conducted Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s “The Symphonic Legacy of Black American Women” last Wednesday, placing this repertoire within a rich musical community. [continued]

Quite possibly Saint-Saëns’s  greatest work, the grand opera Henri VIII enjoyed a bracing production this week in the Sosnoff Theater of Bard College as part of the Summerscape Festival for 2023. The run ended with Friday’s show. [continued]

The Woodstock forest rang with glorious music as Manhattan Chamber Players harnessed the Maverick for an irresistible ride. [continued]

The innovative and creative chamber orchestra offered the final concert of Classical Newport’s 54^th acclaimed summer festival, as the 15 players produced an enormously rich and lush sound in the resonant acoustic of The Breakers of Sunday. [continued]

The Boston (Summer) Festival Orchestra’s “Promenade” featured the world premiere of the three-year-old group’s first commission, the engaging Forbidden Dances by the young Afghani composer-pianist-conductor Arson Fahim. [continued]