Boston Classical Review5d
Nelsons closes BSO’s Beethoven symphony cycle with glimpse of Promised Land
Nelsons’ reading highlighted the music’s play of light and shadow vividly, the quiet spots in the Symphony’s outer movements ...
Boston Classical Review12d
Nelsons’ Beethoven cycle passes the halfway mark in worthy style
Likewise striking was Saturday’s finale.While a touch spacious, it was also flowing and serene. Lit from within, the BSO’s ...
Boston Classical Review5d
Barton, Lipman, and Sanikidze explore space within old and new music
Musical expression requires the space between notes and phrases to tell a cohesive story and move the music forward. In their successful Celebrity Series recital on Saturday, mezzo-soprano Jamie ...
Boston Classical Review14d
Nelsons’ BSO Beethoven cycle delivers a spirited Fourth and lyrical Fifth
Not every night does the music of Beethoven conjure the words and sentiments of Mahatma Gandhi, E. M. Forster, and Louis Spohr. Then again, not every evening at Symphony Hall proves so stimulating as ...
Boston Classical Review15d
Avdeeva more in synch with Liszt than Beethoven in Celebrity Series recital
The Celebrity Series of Boston presented pianist Yulianna Avdeeva Wednesday evening at Longy School of Music’s Pickman Hall. In her Celebrity Series debut, Avdeeva explored the virtuosity and ...
Boston Classical Review13y
Boston Classical Review
The end of a matter, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, is better than its beginning. Though that reality isn’t borne out in every situation, the sentiment largely applies to Beethoven’s nine ...