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4. Bruce Liu playing Rameau, Chopin, Ravel, and Liszt How can you tell a great pianist apart from a very good one? Listen to how they play Liszt. In March, Liu performed that composer’s …
Nelsons, Boston Symphony open Beethoven cycle in top form
9 hours ago · 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 …
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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 …
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Dec 21, 2024 · 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 …
Top Ten Performances of 2024 - Boston Classical Review
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 …
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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 …
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Critic’s Choice 2023-24 – Sep 05, 2023. Puccini: Madama Butterfly. Boston Lyric Opera/David Angus. September 14-24. Last year, Boston Lyric […]
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Dec 12, 2024 · Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, conductor Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 7:30 p.m. Symphony Hall
Boston Classical Review » Blog Archive » A retrospective 2024-25 …
Apr 4, 2024 · The Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates Andris Nelsons’ first decade as music director while also highlighting new and recent initiatives in its 2024-25 season, which was …
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 …