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 Barton, violist Matthew Lipman, and pianist Tamar Sanikidze masterfully manipulated each moment and its silences.

Dec 21, 2024 · Top Ten Performances of 2024 – Dec 21, 2024. 1. Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Andris Nelsons/Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris […]

18 hours ago · There’s madness in love and, as Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt reminds, there’s madness in death, too.On Thursday night, the Boston Symphony Orchestra brought the composer’s operatic study of love, loss, and acceptance to town for just its second local presentation (Odyssey Opera gave the work its stirring regional premiere in 2014).

Dec 21, 2024 · 2. Víkingur Ólafsson playing Bach The Goldberg Variations stand as one of the canon’s three or four most imposing monuments. Yet there was nothing forbidding about the Icelandic pianist’s traversal of the set at Jordan Hall in February. Rather, Ólafsson’s reading blended absorbing sweep and organic logic, with every phrase and embellishment emerging with inviting freshness and a true ...

Jan 10, 2025 · Complete cycles of the Beethoven symphonies aren’t for the faint of heart. Just ask Lorin Maazel, whose 1988 traversal of the set included a respirator in the dressing room—just in case. Then again, Maazel was leading all nine works in a single day. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony ...

Jan 24, 2025 · 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 symphonies, which Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have been busy assaying these last two weeks.

A trifecta of BSO conductors makes for enjoyable post-holiday Nordic feast – Nov 30, 2024. Sometimes, despite its imposing grandeur and marvelous acoustic, Symphony Hall can […]

Jan 1, 2025 · Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, conductor Christine Goerke, soprano Brandon Jovanovich, tenor Tanglewood Festival Chorus Boston Lyric Opera Chorus

Sep 6, 2024 · Bruckner: Symphony No. 5. Celebrity Series. Berliner Philharmoniker/Kirill Petrenko. November 20. There’s hardly been a more brilliant orchestral performance at Symphony Hall this past decade than the Berliner Philharmoniker’s triumphant appearance in November 2022.They return with music director Kirill Petrenko in Anton Bruckner’s towering Symphony No. 5.

Jan 12, 2024 · Nothing draws a crowd like The Rite of Spring.Or, apparently, Seong-Jin Cho. Together, the combination of Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 homage to pagan Russia and the superstar Korean pianist playing Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand resulted in a full house for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the new year Thursday night..