The amazing Joseph Lin honored the 300^th-anniversary of J. S. Bach’s six sonatas and partitas for violin solo by playing them all in a single evening’s span with but a 20-minute intermission at Jordan Hall on Friday; he delivered with superb taste and crystalline musicality    [continued]

Continuing with his miniature homecoming of sorts, Andris Nelsons joined with global star Yefim Bronfman in an endarkened Mozart C Minor Piano Concerto last night. The BSO also tackled orchestral treasures of Bartók and Ravel, all entries well-loved by Symphony Hall audiences.    [continued]

Tuesday night’s BSO subscription concert deliverd a journey of tragedy (Shostakovich’s against the Soviet system), artistic warmth (as regarded in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1809) and the lamenting hope of Dvořák’s New World.    [continued]

The orchestra’s Saturday night outing featured the finest live performance in my concert-going experience of Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony along with worthy Barber and Shostakovich.      [continued]

Rudolf Barshai’s chamber-symphony arrangement of the composer’s String Quartet No. 8  at Symphony Hall pleased this writer last night. Another reviwer’s take on the entire BSO concert will follow.    [continued]

Charismatic flutist Sergio Pallottelli, on the Longy faculty since 2017, charmed his audience there Saturday with “From Earth to Fire.” The excellent pianist Eri Nakamura collaborated    [continued]

For its return to the Boston music scene the Calder Quartet stayed true to its ethos by introducing the first string quartet of emerging Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös and sharing significant milestones of the quartet repertoire, including firsts of Mozart’s “Haydn” quartets and Beethoven’s “late” period.    [continued]

Thoroughly American in character, Cantata Singers’ Friday concert at Jordan Hall on Friday nevertheless partook of the eternal.    [continued]

Celebrity Series of Boston Debut Series presented the barefooted “wild child of the violin” Patricia Kopatchinskaja in duo with Jay Campbell, a cellist possessing an imposing proclivity for present-day performance, on Thursday at Longy.    [continued]

Boston Symphony Chamber Players explored the boundaries of chamber music at Jordan Hall on Sunday, running a gamut from one player to nine.    [continued]

“Soul of the Americas” served up some irresistible soul food from a charming and engaged quartet of two pianists, a  cellist, and percussionist yesterday at Shalin Liu.    [continued]

BSO assistant conductor Yu-An Chang led the world premiere of Formosan Triptych from Taiwanese composer Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, with Till Fellner, and Tchaikovsky’s Third Symphony.    [continued]

Concord Chamber Music Society treated its followers to a stellar Sunday afternoon with the Juilliard String Quartet in music of Brahms, Mozart and Dutillieux.    [continued]

Tango nuevo bandoneon specialist Juanjo Mosalini explored works of his own and Piazzola’s Mosalini’s  with Gisele Ben-Dor and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra at Sanders on Sunday.    [continued]

Collage presented five composers at Longy Sunday whose strikingly different styles all showed real cohesion. David Hoose served as the ever-unperturbed master of the entire ensemble, as he has been doing for years now with first-class skill and taste.    [continued]

Friday night’s concert in Jordan Hall continued A Far Cry’s astonishing run, this time in partnership with the fabulous soprano Sonja Dutoit Tengblad and burnished bass-baritone Dashon Burton in Takemitsu’s Requiem along with Shostakovich’s 14^th Symphony.    [continued]

Conductor Alain Altinoglu and organist Thierry Escaich showcased Symphony Hall’s Æolian-Skinner-Foley-Baker in works of Poulenc and Saint-Saëns, plus some Debussy from the regular forces in a seamless program Friday afternoon which found the BSO in full bloom.    [continued]

In a solemn Sanders Theater Sunday, the Boston Chamber Music Society never strayed too far from themes of mortality, though the vivacious and generous music making from the familiar players mitigated the somber context of the repertoire.    [continued]

Boston Artists Ensemble’s performances of the last two Mozart string quintets in Salem’s Hamilton Hall on Friday delivered the goods, while placing character and presence ahead of intonation and polish. The concert repeated Sunday on Brookline.    [continued]

Brazilian guest conductor Marcelo Lehninger and the BSO essayed the Beethoven’s Fifth Concerto with Spanish soloist Javier Perianes, and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony last night.    [continued]

“New” Christmas music from 200-plus years ago captured the spirit of the season in Musicians of the Old Post Road’s concert on Sunday afternoon in the First Unitarian Church of Worcester.    [continued]

Skylark Vocal Ensemble observed the Christmas holiday on Saturday at First Parish Church in Weston by paying homage to the great tradition of the Lessons and Carols ceremony at the King’s College.    [continued]

Friday night a crowded Jordan Hall witnessed the Boston debut of Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello, together with his sister, Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano. While he headlined, her star shone equally for the Celebrity Series of Boston.    [continued]

Vioinist Ayano Ninomiya and cellist Blaise Déjardin highlighted Longwood Symphony Orchestra’s delightfully varied program at Jordan Hall Saturday.    [continued]

Castle of Our Skin’s “Portrait of Composer Trevor Weston” at Longy last night revealed an exciting, insightful, accessible and connected oeuvre.    [continued]