Lifetime Learning’s livestreamed concert of October 19^th featured violinist pianist Daniel Kurganov and Constantine Finehouse with two of the three Brahms sonatas for that combination.    [continued]

A Far Cry rose above the calamitous times Saturday night with creativity, grace and a gift for conviviality, delivering a riveting and deeply satisfying soirée concertante prerecorded in Pickman Hall. “Dawn Breaks” is available for purchase HERE.

The Parker String Quartet streamed String Quartet No. 3 by Bartók and Brahms’s Quartet Opus 51, No. 1 from Paine Hall on Friday with forethought and verve.    [continued]

“BCMS@Home” leaves me in a conundrum. The ensemble’s recently produced 73-minute video and hour of archival audio from 2017 and 2019, albeit familiar and comforting, join a crowded marketplace of recordings.    [continued]

For Tuesday Night New Music, four New England Conservatory composition students transmitted virtual music—some agreeable and some less so—via the NEC website and YouTube.    [continued]

In a well-crafted program of Beethoven, Morrison, and Bartók, the Balourdet Quartet brought the joy of well-played string quartets to our streaming devices.    [continued]

Garrick Ohlsson offered one of Beethoven’s shortest and one of his longest sonatas, the Op. 78 and the monumental Hammerklavier, Op. 106, from the Caroline H. Hume Hall at San Francisco Conservatory on behalf of Tanglewood Online.    [continued]

Boston Landmarks Orchestra under conductor Christopher Wilkins celebrated the centennial of the 19^th Amendment last night with music composed by women. The narration, soloists, and prerecorded clips made for a lively online outing.    [continued]

A string trio plus a low brass quartet transmited a pleasantly surprising mix of timbres and styles from Studio E.    [continued]

Among the increasingly concert-like videos from Tanglewood, Wednesday night’s Danish String Quartet broadcast may have attained the apex of this verismo. Available until August 12^th.    [continued]

Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax brought nourishment for body, mind and soul in their broadcast from Tanglewood to this wise consumer. Available until August 8^th.    [continued]

Three violists delivered a Tanglewood stream highlighting the misunderstood instrument. The outing of Hindemith, Kay, Clarke and Berio runs through August 7^th.    [continued]

The violin and piano duo of Augustin Hadelich and Orion Weiss played Debussy, Brahms, and Adams for the Tanglewood cameras Saturday. With talent to spare, the artistic pair gave exciting, tight, enthralling, and even transcendent readings. Available online until August 1^st.    [continued]

Violinists Victor Romanul and Tatiana Dimitriades collaborated with pianist Jonathan Bass and a quartet of other BSO players to spotless effect in the latest transmission from Tanglewood. Available through the 31^st.    [continued]

Wednesday night’s webstream from Tanglewood featured the ensemble in new works and a Beethoven movement performed in the new-music style.    [continued]

Tanglewood-in-quarantine continued, as violist and violinist  Pinchas Zuckerman, cellist Amanda Forsyth, and pianist Bryan Wagorn, took us on a trip which, from start to finish, provided a delightful way to spend an hour on a humid Saturday night. Nicole Cabell introduced music of Glière, Kodály, Paradis, Fauré and Beethoven.    [continued]

Friday night’s pre-recorded chamber concert featuring BSO players seemed even shorter than its 50-minute runtime.The works by Loeffler, Ravel and Gabriella Lena Frank will remain on bso.org until the 24^th.    [continued]

Joy at performing together radiated from the brothers Jussens’ Concertgebouw recital, recorded before a socially distanced audience of 350 two weeks prior to this airing on the 16^th at the Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival –A Summer Tradition Transformed. Available online for a week.    [continued]

The Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) and the new Tanglewood Learning Institute have come up with variegated strategies to provide online substitutes for their intended tangible offerings. Viewers and listeners, though, must navigate Odyssian shoals before coming ashore on the webstream.    [continued]

At Tanglewood Online 2020, we witness a performer who is just too good. “For those who like that sort of thing,” said Miss Brodie … “that is the sort of thing they like.”    [continued]

For virtual Tanglewood this summer, the English pianist offers a wonderfully pointed tour of the master’s museum of miniature harmonies and effects.    [continued]

Though we cannot visit that Yellow Barn in the Vermont woods this summer, its worthies nevertheless found a way to transmit some measure of joy to us.      [continued]

The 3^rd Annual Harvard Music Festival, curated last week by Fivesparks, went by in virtual spaces [primarily Zoom] with astoundingly infrequent hiccups, and  showed off a vibrantly alive musical community in Harvard, MA.    [continued]

Juventas New Music Ensemble designed its season finale “Alone Together” with the current human assemblage restrictions in mind, attempting both to simulate the experience of live performance and to capitalize on the unique potentialities of a Futura Studios as a digital performance space.    [continued]

Yo-Yo Ma performed all six Bach cello Suites Sunday from WGBH’s Fraser Studio to television, radio and streaming audiences.    [continued]