A lively collaboration from pianist Yinfei Wang 王寅飛, cellist Nan-Cheng Chen 陳南呈, and pianist  Chi Wei Lo 駱奇偉 provided some savorable moments in the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts concert last night at Williams Hall, NEC.    [continued]

The illustrious Borromeo String Quartet, a frequent visitor to the Maverick, exceeded our high expectations in “Haydn’s Legacy.” With almost every seat occupied, Sunday’s concert opened with Haydn’s String Quartet in C Major, Op. 74, No. 1. From the grand, almost orchestral gestures of the first movement through the grace and sparkle of the inner    [continued]

Ensemble Altera ‘s “The Lamb’s Journey” depicted the Christ narrative from childhood through the crucifixion and resurrection on Saturday night at St. Paul’s Church in Cambridge. On the basis of what I heard, the 23-voice chorus is  succeeding in its mission of “creating thoughtful, engaging, and relevant programs in a wide range of idioms, from medieval to modern.”    [continued]

Capped at 18,000,  the largest audience ever gathered at Tanglewood for a classical concert assembled to celebrate the composer who may well be the best-known in the world.    [continued]

The generous Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts continued its beguiling 2022 summer series this Monday at NEC’s Williams Hall with radiant Schubert, Mozart and Schumann.    [continued]

Pianist Evren Ozel began Thursday’s Williams Hall concert for the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts with a cascade of arpeggios and a scary, high-wire act.    [continued]

Sahun Sam Hong soloed for the first half of his Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts concert at NEC’s Williams Hall last night before inviting three colleagues to join him for the world premiere of his piano-quartet transcription of Schumann’s Carnaval to close.    [continued]

Violinist Inmo Yang and pianist Sahun Sam Hong rewarded the NEC audience with a great collaboration in a demanding program last night.    [continued]

Instantly riveting, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet wowed Rockport Chamber Music Festival Saturday night.    [continued]

Kuok-Wai Lio held us spell-bound with the overwhelming beauty of his piano mastery at Williams Hall last night.    [continued]

Chi Wei Lo filled his piano recital Sunday at Williams Hall with inventive improvised surprises.    [continued]

The Harlem Quartet returned to the Maverick Concert Hall last Sunday with “The Survivors: Haydn, Ellington, and William Grant Still.” Flautist Brandon Patrick George and pianist Terrence Wilson joined in for two chamber arrangements of symphonies by Joseph Haydn.    [continued]

Before her resignation after 25 years of superb leadership of the Tanglewood Music Center, Ellen Highstein put together this year’s six contemporary music concerts with co-curators: soprano Tony Arnold, pianist Stephen Drury, composer George Lewis, and cellist Astrid Schween.    [continued]

Arnold Schoenberg and his colleagues produced chamber-ensemble versions of well-known orchestral masterpieces, some of which we heard in very-well received performances at Shalin Liu on Friday night.    [continued]

Eighteen-year-old-pianist J. J. Jun Li Bui, sixth prize winner at last year’s Chopin Competition, got the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts  Festival underway in great style last night at NEC’s Williams Hall. Fourteen concerts will follow.    [continued]

Earl Lee, the Korean-born Canadian conductor, appointed Boston Symphony assistant conductor in 2021, made his BSO and Tanglewood debut on Saturday evening, anchoring the program with Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony and offering relative novelties in the first half.    [continued]

BLO mounted an outstanding production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette under a cool and cloudy sky at the Boston Common last night. Second and final show begins Saturday at 8:00    [continued]

The Danish String Quartet contrasted Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet with Finnish composer Lotte Wennäkoski’s response, Pige, or “Girl,” at Ozawa Hall on August 3^rd.    [continued]

Tanglewood on Parade had no cannons, yet by the time the Wednesday, August 2^nd parade had gone by, we had seen and heard Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with fireworks.    [continued]

The Horszowski Trio did not disappoint at the Maverick on Sunday. The threesome erected two tent poles of the Romantic chamber music repertoire, Schumann’s Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63, and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49, with positively orchestral tones.    [continued]

JoAnn Falletta led the BSO through very well thought-through selections at the Shed on Saturday night: Fandangos by Roberto Sierra, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with a shining Joshua Bell, and two thirds of Respighi’s fascist-friendly “Roman Trilogy.    [continued]

Tanglewood Music Center fellows and faculty brought Saturday evening’s evening’s contemporary music to life in an engaging and accessible fashion, drawing audience members inside Ozawa Hall from the beautiful lawn.    [continued]

Sunday afternoon’s BSO concert at Tanglewood revealed two fine unfamiliar pieces by women—from the 19^th and 21^sst centuries—and rewarded with the Emperor Concerto.    [continued]

Silk Road’s “Phoenix Rising” celebrated the extended history of the organization and the new beginning after near disaster at Ozawa Hall on Thursday. Yo-Yo Ma made a surprise appearance.    [continued]

Bandoneon and melodica specialist Julien Labro joined the highly regarded Takács Quartet in Ozawa Hall Wednesday. In addition to works for the full quintet, Labro dispatched three solos and the Takács offered the Ravel String Quartet.    [continued]