Monday, April 30, 2018
The Birringer Duo's disc is a terrific, engaging release, The Colin Currie Group’s performance is nothing short of a powerhouse, and pianist Liza Stepanova plays with lots of character and…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:18AMSaturday, April 28, 2018
Peter Oundjian and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra deliver a great album, smartly programmed and played to the hilt. Leonard Bernstein’s live Mahler was often electrifying; this perf…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:12PMThursday, April 26, 2018
New Yorker critic Alex Ross has called the LAPO the best orchestra in the country and that appellation seems about right.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:54PMMonday, April 9, 2018
A thoroughly charismatic Fairy Queen from start to finish, well-prepared, fulgently delivered, and received by a packed house with well-earned warmth.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:39PMThursday, March 29, 2018
Pianist Alexander Melnikov has come up with one of the still-young year’s most compelling discs, Deutsche Grammophon releases an aural train wreck.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:47AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
Two Mahler symphonies, one sluggish the other intense, while symphonies composed by Louise Farrenc, Mozart, and Haydn are done right.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:07AMMonday, March 26, 2018
Superb discs from pianist Lars Vogt, violinist Francesca Dego, pianist Denis Kozhukhin, and violinist James Ehnes on the viola.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:08PMThursday, March 22, 2018
The BSO seems to have taken to heart complaints about its lack of programming diversity, devoting two full programs to underrepresented groups.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:54PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
It is, clearly, a crafty Beethoven remix and the ways John Adams assimilates the older composer’s language into his latest style are fascinating.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24PMSaturday, March 17, 2018
Kalinnikov’s First Symphony is one of those neglected works well worth beating a drum for.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:37PMFriday, March 16, 2018
This symphony is the finest synthesis of Leonard Bernstein’s considerable theatrical instincts within a concert framework, idiosyncratic and singular.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:46PMCharles Ives continues to stand, after 140-plus years, as the ultimate American Composer.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:46AMThursday, March 15, 2018
Pražák Quartet's Smetana is keeper, Sir Simon Rattle's Haydn is a loser, and Lindberg's "On the Waterfront" is a knockout.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:13AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Violinist Michael Barenboim is an exceptional young musician with a famous name who stands on his own two feet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:21AMMonday, March 12, 2018
Musically, everything clicked in Boston Musica Viva's annual Family Concert.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:50PMThroughout the night, CpM music director Jamie Kirsch kept tempos lively and never lost sight of the overarching shape of each of the evening’s big pieces.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:37AMSaturday, March 10, 2018
Max Bruch's music is smart, strong, crafty, and, often, quite endearing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:39AMThursday, March 8, 2018
From a compositional standpoint, too, Chamber Dance is an example of Tower at her engaging best.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:31AMSunday, March 4, 2018
The deeply personal nature of the music’s narrative drew some extraordinary music from Liszt’s pen.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:26PMFriday, March 2, 2018
This weekend’s concert fires on all cylinders. Don’t miss it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:57PMSunday, February 25, 2018
Benjamin Zander, who’s led some distinctly fine concerts in recent years, drew the best out from his band.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:45PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
A stirring serving of contemporary classical music from Hub New Music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:44PMFriday, February 2, 2018
Despite Shostakovich’s often-dissonant approach, the Fourteenth has always been highly-regarded if infrequently-played.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:30PMThursday, February 1, 2018
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra gives sold readings of two Michael Tippett symphonies.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:58PMThe San Francisco Symphony delivers performances of chamber-like sensitivity and remarkable transparency.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
A round-up that includes: irresistible Beethoven, welcome arrivals of spring, a spirited celebration of Toscanini, and spectacular, revelatory Tchaikovsky.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:01AMMonday, January 29, 2018
Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra present a probing and excellent version of Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 6.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:20AMFriday, January 26, 2018
It’s not Prokofiev at his finest, but his “very good” was above just about everybody else’s best.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:21AMMonday, January 22, 2018
The nearly 10 year wait for the premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s string quartet Homunculus was worth it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:33PMSunday, January 21, 2018
Conductor Marek Janowski’s Hindemith is all vigor and athleticism; Tenebrae’s Symphonic Psalms & Prayers is captivating. By Jonathan Blumhofer Marek Janowski isn’t a conductor …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:51AMSaturday, December 23, 2017
A line-up of concerts, performances, and recordings that, as 2017 draws to its close, I can’t, for one reason or many, shake from my memory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PM 
