Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Mozart and Tchaikovsky. 15 November 2024.
Concert review of Boston Lyric Opera’s Aida. 10 November 2024.
Concert review of the Jerusalem Quartet playing Haydn, Shostakovich, and Dvorak. 2 November 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Kendall, Liszt, and Strauss. 25 October 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra playing Beethoven, Brahms, and Bartók. 21 October 2024.
Concert review of the Philip Glass Ensemble playing Glass. 19 October 2024.
Concert review of Emanuel Ax playing Schoenberg, Beethoven, and Schumann. 14 October 2024.
Concert review of Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project playing Gershwin. 13 October 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Berlioz, Gandolfi, and Saint-Saëns. 11 October 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Mahler. 5 October 2024.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society playing Haydn and Mozart. 28 September 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Snider, Copland, Barber, and Simon. 27 September 2024.
Concert review of Boston Lyric Opera’s Mitridate. 14 September 2024.
Feature: 2024-25 Critic’s Choice. 6 September 2024.
Concert review of Radius Ensemble playing Bologne, Crumb, Reich, and Ruehr. 17 May 2024.
Concert review of Boston Cecilia and Lowell Chamber Orchestra playing Mozart. 12 May 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Berlioz. 2 May 2024.
Concert review of the New England Philharmonic and Cantata Singers playing Sandström. 29 April 2024.
Concert review of the Bamberg Symphony playing Wagner, Brahms, and Schumann. 24 April 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Thorvaldsdottir, Mozart, and Brahms. 19 April 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Messiaen. 12 April 2024.
Concert review of Christian Tetzlaff and Kirill Gerstein playing Janáček, Kurtág, Bartók, Adès, and Brahms. 8 April 2024.
Concert review of Odyssey Opera playing Argento. 6 April 2024.
Concert review of the Isidore String Quartet playing Haydn, Childs, and Beethoven. 28 March 2024.
Concert review of Bruce Liu playing Rameau, Chopin, Ravel, and Liszt. 24 March 2024.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society playing Beethoven. 16 March 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Ravel, Langer, Dvorak, and Janacek. 15 March 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players playing Nielsen, Andriessen, Thorvaldsdottir, and Schubert. 11 March 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Grieg. 8 March 2024.
Concert review of Boston Lyric Opera’s Eurydice. 2 March 2024.
Concert review of Alexander Crosett playing Frank, King, Barber, Suesse, Childs, Tanaka, and Hersch. 1 March 2024.
Concert review of Takács Quartet playing Haydn, Ngwenyama, and Beethoven. 19 February 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Rachmaninoff and Chausson. 16 February 2024.
Concert review of Víkingur Ólafsson playing Bach. 11 February 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Haydn and Bartók. 9 February 2024.
Concert review of Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene. 5 February 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Smyth, Bruch, and Mendelssohn. 4 February 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Shostakovich. 26 January 2024.
Concert review of Hélène Grimaud playing Beethoven, Brahms, and Bach/Busoni. 21 January 2024.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing León, Ravel, and Stravinsky. 12 January 2024.
Feature: Top 10 Performances of 2023. 19 December 2023.
Concert review of Blue Heron’s Medieval English Christmas. 16 December 2023.
Concert review of Boston Cecilia’s Bach Illuminated. 12 December 2023.
Concert review of the New England Philharmonic playing Mozart, Sibelius, and Kuspa. 11 December 2023.
Concert review of Jeremy Denk in recital. 10 December 2023.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society playing Handel. 25 November 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Liszt, Ligeti, Stravinsky, and Adès. 17 November 2023.
Concert review of “Ligeti 100 Celebration” concert #2. 14 November 2023.
Concert review of Sir András Schiff playing Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Beethoven, and Mozart. 11 November 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Lieberson, Berg, and Schumann. 10 November 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Kodály, Tchaikovsky, and Schubert. 3 November 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Kendall and Beethoven. 20 October 2023.
Concert review of Isata Kanneh-Mason playing Haydn, Fanny Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Chopin. 14 October 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Haydn, Shostakovich, and Habibi. 13 October 2023.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society playing Handel. 7 October 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Beethoven, Mozart, Maskats, and Strauss. 6 October 2023.
Concert review of White Snake Projects’ Monkey, A Kung Fu Puppet Parable. 23 September 2023.
Concert review of Boston Lyric Opera’s Madama Butterfly. 15 September 2023.
Feature: 2023-24 Critics Picks. 5 September 2023.
Concert review of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra playing Bartók, Bunch, Biber, Price, and Wiancko. 22 May 2023.
Concert review of Seraphim Singers’ 25th Anniversary Gala Concert. 14 May 2023.
Concert review of the Aizuri Quartet playing Clara Schumann, Bartók, Tagaq, and Haydn. 6 May 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Britten and Shostakovich. 5 May 2023.
Concert review of Osvaldo Golijov’s Falling Out of Time. 1 May 2023.
Concert review of Davóne Tines in recital. 27 April 2023.
Concert review of Boston Baroque’s Iphigénie en Tauride. 24 April 2023.
Concert review of the Doric String Quartet and Benjamin Grosvenor playing Beethoven, Haydn, and Bridge. 23 April 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra playing Schubert and Mahler. 15 April 2023.
Concert review of Joshua Bell and Daniil Trifonov playing Beethoven, Prokofiev, Bloch, and Franck. 5 April 2023.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society playing Bononcini and Bach. 3 April 2023.
Concert review of Boston Lyric Opera’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Four Songs. 25 March 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Stravinsky and Adès. 24 March 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Artists Ensemble playing Beethoven and Shostakovich. 13 March 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra playing Bartók and Tchaikovsky. 11 March 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Coleridge-Taylor, Still, and Caine. 6 March 2023.
Concert review of Igor Levit playing Beethoven. 5 March 2023.
Concert review of Odyssey Opera’s Awakenings. 26 February 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic playing Beethoven. 25 February 2023.
Feature: Benjamin Zander on Beethoven’s Ninth. 21 February 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, and Rachmaninoff. 17 February 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Simon, Bloch, and Beethoven. 10 February 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Wagner. 3 February 2023.
Concert review of the Danish String Quartet playing Haydn, Shostakovich, Britten, and Nordic folk music. 28 January 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Mackey, Shostakovich, and Brahms. 27 January 2023.
Concert review of the Emerson String Quartet playing Bartók, Walker, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. 23 January 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Dvorak, Szymanowski, and Lutoslawski. 20 January 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Lili Boulanger, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Justin Dello Joio, and Dvorak. 13 January 2023.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony performing Tchaikovsky, Milch-Sheriff, and Beethoven. 6 January 2023.
Feature: Top 10 Performances of 2022. 19 December 2022.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society playing Vierdanck, Bach, Zelenka, and Handel. 16 December 2022.
Concert review of Seong-Jin Cho playing Handel, Brahms, and Schumann. 12 December 2022.
Concert review of the Junction Trio playing Amy Williams, Ravel, Thomas Morely, and Schumann. 11 December 2022.
Concert review of Martin Helmchen playing Bach. 7 December 2022.
Concert review of Boston Cecilia’s Evensong. 3 December 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra playing Beethoven and Strauss. 21 November 2022.
Concert review of John Corigliano’s The Lord of Cries. 20 November 2022.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society performing Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. 18 November 2022.
Concert review of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performing Norman, Mozart, and Korngold. 14 November 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra playing Dvorak and Brahms. 13 November 2022.
Concert review of Anne Sofie von Otter and Kristian Bezuidenhout performing Schubert, Lindblad, and Mozart. 6 November 2022.
Concert review of New England Philharmonic playing Corigliano, Rodríguez, Watkins, and Nathan. 31 October 2022.
Concert review of the Los Angeles Philharmonic playing Ortiz and Mahler. 24 October 2022.
Concert review of Musica Sacra performing Thorvaldsdóttir, Pärt, Gjielo, and Vasks. 23 October 2022.
Concert review of Collage New Music playing Thomas, Harbison, Blackburn, and Froom. 17 October 2022.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society playing Bach and Buxtehude. 8 October 2022.
Feature: “How do you solve a problem like Puccini?” 4 October 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Adolphe, Shostakovich, and Haydn. 30 September 2022.
Concert review of the Olmsted Quartet playing Bologne, Müller-Hermann, and Schubert. 26 September 2022.
Concert review of La bohème. 24 September 2022.
Concert review of Longwood Symphony and World Doctors Orchestra playing Bach, Mahler, Barber, and Stravinsky. 19 September 2022.
Concert review of White Snake Project’s Cosmic Cowboy. 17 September 2022.
Concert review of Beth Wiemann’s I Give You My Home. 5 June 2022.
Concert review of Dashon Burton singing Bach, Brahms, Fauré, and Bonds. 26 May 2022.
Concert review of Radius Ensemble playing Rota, Coleman, Takemitsu, and Ives. 22 May 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra playing Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky. 7 May 2022.
Concert review of Takács Quartet and Julien Labro in concert. 1 May 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Strauss and Saint-Saëns. 29 April 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mahler. 9 April 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Tchaikovsky, Reid, and Sibelius. 8 April 2022.
Concert review of The Boston Cecilia playing Rudoi. 4 April 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Britten. 1 April 2022.
Concert review of Emmanuel Music playing Bach. 27 March 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Berg. 11 March 2022.
Concert review of Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax playing Beethoven. 10 March 2022.
Concert review of Imani Winds and Catalyst Quartet playing Santamaría, Price, Montgomery, and Sierra. 6 March 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Ives, Chin, and Berlioz. 4 March 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra playing Ravel, Elgar, and Shostakovich. 28 February 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Pärt, Shostakovich, Saariaho, and Stravinsky. 25 February 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project playing Elgar, Paulus, Messiaen, and Jongen. 19 February 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Borodin, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev. 11 February 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. 7 February 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Janacek, Rachmaninoff, and Dvorak. 4 February 2022.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society playing Mozart and Haydn. 31 January 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Berg, Ravel, and Adès. 28 January 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players playing Bartók, Gandolfi, and Dvorak. 24 January 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Brahms, Nabors, and Tchaikovsky. 21 January 2022.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Gruber, Mozart, and Prokofiev. 7 January 2022.
Concert review of the Cantata Singers’ Of All the Kings. 13 December 2021.
Concert review of Boston Cecilia’s Renaissance Reborn. 11 December 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Brahms. 24 November 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra playing Barber, Mozart, and Mahler. 20 November 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Widmann and Mahler. 19 November 2021.
Concert review of Nicholas Phan and Brooklyn Rider in concert. 13 November 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, and Brahms. 11 November 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players performing Higdon, Epstein, Ran, and Farrenc. 8 November 2021.
Concert review of the Handel & Haydn Society playing Farrenc and Beethoven. 6 November 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Tchaikovsky and Dvorak. 5 November 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Victor Wooten, and Duke Ellington. 29 October 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Gubaidulina and Rachmaninoff. 22 October 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing William Grant Still, Strauss, and Sibelius. 15 October 2021.
Concert review of Brooklyn Rider playing Azmeh, Roberts, Grau, Golijov, and Gilberto. 8 October 2021.
Concert review of Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Beethoven, Williams, and Bartók. 1 October 2021.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Grime, Walton, and Duruflé. 28 February 2020.
Concert review of the New England Philharmonic’s Together & Apart. 24 February 2020.
Concert review of Ying Fang in recital. 13 February 2020.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Bartók, Mozart, and Ravel. 31 January 2020.
Concert review of Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Jay Campbell in recital. 24 January 2020.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Lee, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. 17 January 2020.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Orchestra playing Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. 3 January 2020.
Concert review of Back Bay Chorale’s A Boston Christmas. 21 December 2019.
Concert review of Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason in recital. 14 December 2019.
Concert review of the Los Angeles Philharmonic playing Ginastera, Adams, and Stravinsky. 24 November 2019.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Maskats, Tchaikovsky, Grigorjeva, and Shostakovich. 22 November 2019.
Concert review of Mistral Music’s Hope & Harmony. 18 November 2019.
Concert review of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig playing Mahler, Schumann, Wagner, and Mendelssohn. 30 October 2019.
Concert review of the New England Philharmonic’s Left Dreaming. 27 October 2019.
Concert review of Susanna Mälkki conducting Fauré, Ammann, Messiaen, and Debussy. 25 October 2019.
Concert review of Boston Musica Viva’s Small Steps & Giant Leaps. 6 October 2019.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Beethoven and Strauss. 27 September 2019.
Concert review of Boston Early Music Festival’s Orlando generoso. 10 June 2019.
Concert review of Seraphim Singers at Eliot Church. 12 May 2019.
Concert review of Itzhak Perlman and Evgeny Kissin in recital. 23 April 2019.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Bacewicz, Mozart, and Mendelssohn. 19 April 2019.
Concert review of Cantus’s Alone Together. 4 April 2019.
Concert review of Boston Cecilia’s American Longing. 25 March 2019.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Adolphus Hailstork, Roberto Sierra, Florence Price, and Duke Ellington. 24 March 2019.
Concert review of Longy’s Sistema Side-by-Side Gala. 19 March 2019.
Concert review of the New Philharmonia Orchestra playing Brahms. 10 March 2019.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players performing music by Barber, Langer, Rossini, and Gandolfi. 4 March 2019.
Concert review of Beatrice Rana playing Chopin, Ravel, and Stravinsky. 28 February 2019.
Concert review of Collage New Music. 11 February 2019.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Haydn and Brahms. 18 January 2019.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Mendelssohn and Dvorak. 4 January 2019.
Concert review of Boston Cecilia’s Radiant Dawn. 1 December 2018.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Gruber and Mahler. 16 November 2018.
Concert review of Chorus pro Musica’s Audubon. 10 November 2018.
Concert review of the Boston Civic Symphony playing Higdon, Walton, and Debussy. 5 November 2018.
Concert review of the Boston Philharmonic playing Glinka, Dvorak, and Brahms. 19 October 2018.
Concert review of Boston Lyric Opera’s The Barber of Seville. 13 October 2018.
Concert review of Hannu Lintu conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 12 October 2018.
Concert review of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra’s “Tragedy and Triumph.” 30 September 2018.
Concert review of Emmanuel Music’s “All Hail, St. Cecilia.” 23 September 2018.
Concert review of Mercury Orchestra at the Hatch Shell. 30 August 2018.
Concert review of Michael Gandolfi’s In America at Tanglewood. 24 July 2018.
Concert review of Herbert Blomstedt conducting Mozart, Bernstein, and Haydn at Tanglewood. 22 July 2018.
Concert review of the Cambridge Symphony’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dance.” 17 June 2018.
Concert review of Julia Bullock at Pickman Hall. 3 May 2018.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Brahms and Prokofiev. 27 April 2018.
Concert review of the Takács Quartet playing Mozart, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. 24 March 2018.
Concert review of the Boston Symphony playing Bernstein and Shostakovich. 23 March 2018.
Concert review of Daniil Trifonov and Sergei Babayan in recital at Jordan Hall. 4 March 2018.
Concert review of Herbert Blomstedt conducting Mozart. 23 February 2018.
Concert review of Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax playing Brahms. 22 February 2018.
Concert review of the Doric String Quartet at Pickman Hall. 16 February 2018.
Concert review of Thomas Ades conducting Beethoven, Ligeti, Ades, and Stravinsky. 26 January 2018.
Concert review of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra playing Gounod, Ewazen, and Beethoven. 22 January 2018.
Concert review of Emmanuel Music’s Christmas Oratorio. 17 December 2017.