Monday, April 1, 2013
The Boston Camerata proffers a constant sense of discovery and rediscovery, of unusually lively musicianship and scholarship, and a sprightly sense of the humanity - and the snarly complexit…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:35PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Pianist Jeremy Denk wields a large artillery of dynamics and colors and it served him well in this performance.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:54PMSunday, March 3, 2013
Playing by heart with these three incredible people is the most exhilarating thing I’ve ever done as a musician, and I look forward to many more years of doing this with the Chiara Quartet…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:27AMSaturday, January 26, 2013
For those who missed this evening, pick up Roz Chast's "Theories of Everything," which is a wonderfully huge collection of her cartoons published in "The New Yorker."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:37PMMonday, January 14, 2013
From the moment he began to play, pianist Paul Lewis established his authority. His performance was spellbinding and eloquent, animated by a respect for precision and rhythmic clarity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:21AMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Green Mountain Project has done everything right, paying careful, historically informed attention to pitch, transposition, tempi, number of performers, and tuning.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:46AMMonday, December 24, 2012
Several merits distinguish Blue Heron's concerts, the most salient being the always-gorgeous singing of this pre-eminent Renaissance vocal choir.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:28PMSpirits were lifted; those in need of holiday cheer got a massive dose of it. Bravo to The Boston Camerata and to Les Fleurs des Caraïbes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:05AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
The Emerson String Quartet gave its all - beauty, power, fire - in Johannes Brahms's String Quartet in A minor, Opus 51, no. 2.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMWednesday, November 28, 2012
The tremendous success and rave reviews elicited by this "Orfeo" are due in large part to Boston Early Music Festival's superb orchestra and cast of eight singers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:17AMThursday, November 22, 2012
Where does such musical maturity and - let's face it - genius come from? Pianist George Li's phrasing, the beauty of his sound, his perfect pedaling and expressive rhythm - all were in play.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:33AMMonday, November 19, 2012
The Takács Quartet have won the kind of acclaim that most chamber groups can only dream of, and their concert in Boston made their enviable reputation understandable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
Why, Rita Costanzi asks incredulously, do harpists, albeit occasionally, marry other harpists: "Does the word masochist mean anything to you?"
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:49PMSunday, November 11, 2012
Teams of string coaches were deployed to make this quartet of actors look like they knew what they are doing with their instruments, but no critic has noticed how completely unrelated the mo…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:35PMTuesday, November 6, 2012
Considered by some to be a guardian of ancient music, Jordi Savall has inspired adulation for a variety of reasons, but in the end it's because he plays the viol or viola da gamba better tha…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:51AMSaturday, October 27, 2012
It was an absolute pleasure to finally hear the extraordinary clarinetist Anthony McGill in person, and clearly the audience felt the same, because there were several curtain calls and much …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Nareh Arghmanyan is a personality and technique that thrives on performing Romantic music, and it was her Rachmaninov and Schumann that were most impressive on a recital that also featured t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:37AMSunday, October 21, 2012
The late John Updike, Harvard Professor Maria Tartar recalled, described fairy tales as "the television and pornography of an earlier era."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:19AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Jorge Luis Prats' performance was absolutely breathtaking, and one had the sense of being at a historic recital, of discovering a hugely gifted, yet virtually unknown, artist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:05PMSunday, September 16, 2012
em>The big theme in fiction this summer was the resonance of disappearance -- seen as satire, as melodrama, and as tragedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:00PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Despite the high level of the players, there are things a professional quartet brings to a performance or recording—uniformity of sound and style—that cannot be matched by a group cobble…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:14AMThursday, July 26, 2012
Under the baton of its Artistic Director, Susan Davenny Wyner, Boston Midsummer Opera has become an annual highlight of Boston's classical music line-up during the summer.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:59PMSaturday, June 16, 2012
What continually impresses about A Far Cry is their discipline, ability to keep complicated rubato under complete control, well-modulated dynamics, beauty of sound, and really interesting pr…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:29AMMonday, June 11, 2012
The vocal ensemble Blue Heron closed its season with "a marvelously expansive concept of the divine" in a program of 16th-century Spanish music based on or inspired by the Song of Songs.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:32PMTuesday, May 15, 2012
Chameleon Arts Ensemble's programming, the brainchild of its director and flutist Deborah Boldin, aims to place pieces together that have interesting things in common musically and culturall…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Many musical organizations around New England are performing their last concerts of the season, so if there's a group you've been wanting to hear, this is a good opportunity.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Emmanuel Music bought this neglected Mozart opera to life with polished musicianship and excellent singers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:17AMFriday, April 13, 2012
There was nothing in the program about the pieces he and his fellow musicians would be playing, but no one seemed to care. Most already knew the music from Paco de Lucía's recordings. They …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:38AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
It was, for this listener, an embarrassment of riches, even in this early music town. Both groups gave excellent performances of music written at approximately the same time.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:54PMSunday, April 1, 2012
April is an unusually excellent month for Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts -- a promisng match up of programs and conductors.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:45AMMonday, March 19, 2012
Section by section, Cantata Singers & Ensemble are as good as choral groups get, which in this town of dozens of choruses, says quite a lot.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:10PM 
