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Character matters—or so we’re often told. It certainly counts in music, and in various ways, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons demonstrated in their traversal of works by Mozart and Kevin Puts on Thursday night. Genre-wise, it’s challenging music to pigeonhole. Co ...
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6 days ago · An individual “Pathetique” and fresh Mozart from Jordan, Lisiecki and BSO – Nov 15, 2024. To live, Nietzsche tells us, is to suffer, and few 19th-century […]
Fine singers carry BLO’s concert “Aida” over rough edges
Nov 11, 2024 · Sunday was a special day for bass Morris Robinson, who marked the 25 th anniversary of his BLO debut (also in Aida), with a stirring, stentorian portrayal of the high priest Ramfis.Fred C. Vanness, Jr. made the most of his short appearance as the Messenger while Stefan Egerstrom’s King was sturdy, if a bit stiff.
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November 29. Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, conductor Ross Jamie Collins, conductor Na’Zir McFadden, conductor Sergio Tiempo, pianist Sibelius: Finlandia Grieg: Piano Concerto
Boston Classical Review » 2024
6 days ago · An individual “Pathetique” and fresh Mozart from Jordan, Lisiecki and BSO – Nov 15, 2024. To live, Nietzsche tells us, is to suffer, and few 19th-century […]
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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.
The organ takes the spotlight as Rachid makes impressive BSO …
Oct 11, 2024 · Take it from Hector Berlioz: organ and orchestra shouldn’t mix. “The organ and the orchestra are both Kings, or rather one is Emperor and the other Pope,” the Gallic master wrote in his Treatise on Instrumentation.. “They have different missions, their interests are too vast and too divergent to be confused…Every time I have heard the organ playing together with the …
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Oct 29, 2024 · A retrospective 2024-25 BSO season will also offer premieres, Mahler and Korngold rarities – Apr 04, 2024. The Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates Andris Nelsons’ first decade as music […]
BLO’s strong cast overcomes production excesses in Mozart’s …
Sep 14, 2024 · “[Bleeping] family,” Jeff Goldblum’s Zeus mutters in an early episode of Netflix’s Kaos.He could easily have been referring to the dysfunctional brood at the heart of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto, which opened Boston Lyric Opera’s season Friday night at the Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre.. Based on Jean Racine’s 1673 play Mithridate, Mozart’s score concerns ...
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Dec 22, 2022 · Top Ten Performances of 2022 – Dec 19, 2022. 1. Music by Korngold, Mozart and Andrew Norman. Kirill Petrenko/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra […]