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“Decoding Shostakovich”and the BSO Season End With a Bang - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra finished the 2024–2025 season with two of Shostakovich’s greatest works, Violin Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 8. It might have seemed an odd program for May, since these are also two of Shostakovich’s grimmest works.
BPYO Ready For Its Tour - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Under Benjamin Zander’s lapel-grabbing leadership, the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra has, for 13 years, been operating on such an exalted plane, that a critic can safely leave his stopwatch and research scriblings at home and allow himself to absorb the vivid, energetic, sonorous, heartfelt wo
A Concert of Excellent Parts - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
The combination of five splendid musicians and three Beethoven chamber masterpieces for the Foundation for Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts concert almost satisfied my lofty expectations at Jordan Hall last night. The distinguished violinist, Joseph Lin, whom many Boston music lovers may remem
A “Symphony of Mice?” - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Conductor Jonathan Cohen’s eclectic selection from Viennese composers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout sometimes fronting the Period Orchestra, closed the H+H season last night at Symphony Hall. Repeats Sunday at 3:00pm.
Definitive Bach - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Jonathan Dimmock presented 13 selections from Bach’s monumental Clavierübung III on Sunday at the First Lutheran Church of Boston, playing the church’s sublime Richards, Fowkes organ, built in 2000 and considered the definitive German Baroque organ in Boston.
Christoph Wolff Elucidates Bach’s Mass in B Minor - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Back in 1818, a little-known Swiss composer, Hans Georg Naegeli (1773–1836), wrote of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor, “It is the greatest music work of art of all ages and of all people.” With this quote, Christoph Wolff, retired professor of music at Harvard University and world-wide exper
Premiere of a 1911 Suffrage Cantata - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Music lovers might know the rich body of work — especially her symphonies and chamber music — by Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929). A premiere of an unknown but important work of hers will take place tomorrow at Whitman College in eastern Washington state (Monday, April 28, 7 PM Pacific ti
A Month of Rockport Moments - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
In not so many weeks, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival will commence to celebrate both the Shalin Liu Center’s 15th anniversary and a decades-strong tradition of presenting the best in chamber music. The 44th season’s slate of 20 concerts, spanning from June 13th to July 13th with three “annex” d
Jonathan Dimmock to Play First Lutheran Church - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
This Sunday, April 27th at 3pm, the First Lutheran Church of Boston will host San Francisco Symphony’s Jonathan Dimmock in an all-Bach organ recital. Touring several times each year, he is one of the few organists in the world to perform on six continents.Built by Richards, Fowkes & Co. in 2000
Nordic Nightingales - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Today, Wednesday April 23rd, you have a unique (and gratis) opportunity to hear the streaming concert “Nordic Nightingales: Songs by Swedish and Norwegian Women” performed by soprano Laura Loge, with Jonathan Spatola-Knoll, piano, and Amy Dodds, violin. The program features music by 12 women, includ
A Burns Night: The American Revolution - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
April 16th witnessed a sold-out Symphony Hall audience that had gathered in eager anticipation of the arrival on-stage of acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, who had come to town to preview his latest, 10-years-in-the-making opus: The American Revolution. Sharing the stage with Burns was Chad Smith, BSO
Out With the Damn Drum Machine - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Since the New Year, National Public Radio has been rolling out a lot of new spots and background-filler music, mostly synthetic but including plenty of clips from small-combo, big-band, even an occasional symphony orchestra, and of course solo guitar or piano, and the other day I heard, for about th
The Latest and Last Big Box ? - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
It looks like the music industry has written off the Compact Disc. And not just the music industry; try to find a new automobile that has a CD player as standard equipment. Before the pandemic, classical labels large and small were packaging CDs into substantial boxes, the collected works of major c
Horizon Ensemble Celebrates Local Voices - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Horizon Ensemble’s “Massachusetts Voices,” at Boston’s Church of the Covenant on Sunday at 3:00, offers only the second performance ever of Amy Beach’s concert aria Jephthah’s Daughter, op. 53 (I discussed the premiere here), as well as two new works by local composers, and one by Leonard Bernstei
Satie: Pear-shaped Pieces - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
As the centenary of Erik Satie’s death on July 1st approaches, I thought of a major work of his, first published 122 years ago (some parts of it are older still). This is his Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear, for piano four hands, which I first heard when I was about 8 years old, thanks to my mot
A Real Nice Hayride? - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Ferenc Molnár’s 1909 play Liliom unflinchingly recounts how a dangerous if irresistible man can be redeemed by faith and love. Rogers’s and Hammerstein’s immortal, though far less gritty musical version Carousel comes back to the Colonial Theater on the 80th anniversary of its initial run there. Bos
A Little Lunchmusic - The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Boston and Cambridge offer eight series of noon-hour musical offerings across seven locations. Five take place in churches, and four focus on the pipe organ. Most begin at 12:15pm (except as noted below), last 30-40 minutes, and feature guest performers. All are free, though gifts are encouraged at