Gravity abhors straight lines Russell Sherman’s eagerly awaited annual faculty recital on April 3rd at Jordan Hall will feature works long connected with him: Schoenberg’s Pieces (3) for Piano, Op. 11, Beethoven’s Sonata for Piano ...

Continuing its exploration under Music Director Andris Nelsons of music from the Russian/Soviet bloc, the BSO presented Georgian composer Giya Kancheli’s Dixi in its U.S. premiere, with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus; Sergei Rachmaninov’s ...

Joshua Bell (file photo) When the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (ASMF) last visited Boston, in April 2012, my BMInt review headline read “It’s all about the ensemble.” Proof that artistic lightning can strike more than once ...

Cape Ann chamber music lovers at Rockport Music’s Shalin Liu Performance Center witnessed a marvelous concert on Sunday by the Juilliard String Quartet. Founded in 1946 by the Juilliard School’s then President, William Schumann, the ...

Peter Schikele (Michael Lawrence photo) The perfectly good explanation the Concord Chamber Music Society’s sold-out performance on Sunday began over 50 years ago (we were there!) at New York’s Town Hall, where a young composer fresh out ...

The headline from Emmanuel Church reads “Bach Reconstructed—J. S. Bach: St. Mark Passion, BWV 247.” If you are looking in from the outside, the comments of Music Director Ryan Turner would point you in the right direction. ...

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Somewhat Amused The NY Times asks us to raise a glass to the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on its 20th anniversary this year. They declare that the orchestra has become “one of the most artistically valuable in the ...

Did brass players get doubling fees? (Hilary Scott photo) On Thursday night, the BSO under guest conductor Stéphane Denève offered a riveting and absolutely cathartic selection of three carefully chosen works. Transcending death was the ...

Daniil Trifonov at Jordan Hall. (Robert Torres photo) As part of its cross-country tour, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal dazzled Symphony Hall Wednesday night under the direction of music director Kent Nagano in Debussy’s ...

On Palm Sunday (March 20th) at 3:30, the “soul of an organ,” in the words of Arthur Sullivan, will once again “enter into ours.” For 35 years, this writer has kept faith with a promise he made to the organ builder Charles Fisk ...