Odyssey Opera continued its valuable exploration of neglected works, introducing one even few opera enthusiasts know: Saint-Saëns’s Henry VIII. Saturday’s audience for the concert performance at Jordan Hall discovered a treasure.    [continued]

Boston Artists Ensemble, the brainchild of cellist and artistic director Jonathan Miller, opened its season at St. Paul’s Church in Brookline Sunday with Mozart, Beethoven, and Janáček;  John Ferillo, the featured player in Mozart’s charming Quartet for Oboe and Strings in F, K. 370 lent the event a special appeal.    [continued]

The freshness and brilliance of Boston Chamber Music Society concert of classics Sunday at Sanders encouraged its listeners to reserve their tickets early for its next performance.    [continued]

The timely, poignant, and artistically satisfying I Am a Dreamer Who No Longer Dream, which premiered on Friday at the Emerson Paramount, allows some of Boston’s best up-and-coming female voices explore dislocation and transformation in America. The run continues Saturday and Sunday.    [continued]

Giselle triumphantly returned to open Boston Ballet’s 56^th season. It runs through September 29^th at the Citizens Bank Opera House.    [continued]

Opening Night for the Boston Symphony’s new season found Andris Nelsons leading a congeries of crowd-pleasing repertoire, a premiere, and a more-lavish-than-usual assortment of soloists, and choral participation.    [continued]

Leo Abbott presided as the Holy Cross Cathedral’s Hook & Hastings Organ returned to active life after two years of silence.    [continued]

Peter Freisinger recruited an international cast of DMAs, graduate students, and experienced professionals from all over the world for his 12^th-annual chamber orchestra fest at Old South Church. Sunday’s bill of fare came from an Italian and two Poles.    [continued]

The Maverick Concerts series extended its season Sunday afternoon in a special free concert, pianist Pedja Muzijevic’s “Bach Dialogues,”    [continued]

The Jamaica Plain Saxophone Quartet took the stage at MIT’s Killian Hall last Friday, launching the its AfterDark series with contemporary classical pieces tied to Boston.    [continued]

A Far Cry’s 13^th season opener “…explored the conflict and connection between the virtuous and the virtuosic” at Jordan Hall on Friday. If slightly forced as an argument, in action, the concept proved worthy of reflection through a far-ranging group of works.    [continued]

Concluding its two-year cycle of the complete Mendelssohn String Quartets in Calderwood Hall, the foursome ebulliently displayed not only the virtuosity of its individual players but also ensemble playing of rare sensitivity. The concert will repeat on Sunday at 1:30 pm.    [continued]

The Semiosis Quartet took its “American Century” program of works by female composers to the Leslie Lindsey Chapel of Emmanuel Church on Friday evening after having offered it in Cambridge the night before.    [continued]

The 2019 Maverick season ended with its first non-string-quartet Sunday concert. Trio Solisti rewarded our wait.    [continued]

Bernard Haitink began the farewell tour of his 65-year career on Friday with the Wiener Philharmoniker, and pianist Emmanuel Ax at the closing concert of the 99^th Salzburger Festspiele. Trachten- and Dirndl-clad music lovers filled the Großes Festspielhaus.    [continued]

Boston’s Semiosis Quartet challenged themselves and their audience with “An American Century” Thursday evening at New School of Music in Cambridge.    [continued]

I wouldn’t dare to evaluate the Pacifica Quartet’s performance of Elliot Carter’s String Quartet No. 2 at the Maverick on Sunday, but the foursome stimulated my cogitations on Mendelssohn and thrilled me in a Razumovsky.    [continued]

Mercury Orchestra’s Brahmsfest at Jordan Hall Saturday allowed Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts concerto competition winner Zhiye Lin to show off his chops in the first concerto. Channing Yu also led a fine traversal of the second symphony.    [continued]

A far-flung correspondent reports from the Brandenbug Gate.    [continued]

Yesterday Adam Tendler’s sometimes frustrating piano recital preceded a satisfying chamber traversal of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.    [continued]

The Boston Ballet closed the 2019 Summer Season at Jacob’s Pillow this weekend with riveting performances of works by Leonid Yakobson, four selections from William Forsythe and Jorma Elo’s dance  paired with live renditions of Bach’s first and second cello suites    [continued]

Conductor Yu-An Chang made an auspicious BSO debut at the Shed Friday with works by two teenage composers, Mendelssohn and Schubert, framing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major with Conrad Tao.    [continued]

Ji Yong Kim closed the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts summer music series Thursday night at NEC with powerfully projected Beethoven and Schumann.    [continued]

The unshowy Peter Fang has turned into a pianist poet, as his serious, lovely ways with Bach and Brahms demonstrated Wednesday in a Chinese Performing Arts Foundation recital at NEC.    [continued]

Violinist Angelo Ziang Yu and pianist Feng Niu produced a nuanced and varied recital at Monday’s Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts summer concert series at Burnes Hall    [continued]