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Nov 23, 2024 | 
classical-scene.com | Julie R. Ingelfinger
The first half of this week’s BSO program with Nelsons on the podium featured two well-known Mozart works—K. 384, the Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, more energetic than seductive, played with verve by the orchestra and the Symphony in C Major No. 36, K. 425, Linz. As a standalone, the Overture inevitably provides a cheerful, if frenetic look at a tough subject—harems. In this case, a young woman interestingly named Constanze, is captured by pirates and requires a rescue.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
classical-scene.com | Julie R. Ingelfinger
Violinist Ayano Ninomiya and pianist Pei-Shan Lee, both NEC-based, enchanted the audience in the opener in Jordan Hall of this season’s Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts. Their alert musicianship and conscious phrasing enhanced musical intent, reflecting their sensitivity and attention to composers’ intents, as well as to one another. Both have distinguished themselves in careers built both on performance and pedagogy.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
classical-scene.com | Julie R. Ingelfinger
Synergistic, effective, challenging and tuneful, this week’s BSO all-American-composer program augers well for a thoughtful, adventurous musical season. Thursday’s concert brought the audience to its feet more than once, as important contemporary works by Sarah Kirkland Snider and Carlos Simon shone!Sarah Kirkland Snider (b. 1973) introduced Forward into the Light (2020) with warm, articulate words.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
classical-scene.com | Julie R. Ingelfinger
Pianist and choral composer Sunmin Kim enchanted Friday’s Williams Hall audience in this last recital of the exciting 2024 Summer Concerts of the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts, a cultural gem of greater Boston, founded 35 years ago by Catherine Tan Chan. Kim’s elegant demeanor, as well as his accomplished touch and phrasing informed his thoughtful engagement.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
classical-scene.com | Julie R. Ingelfinger
The clarity of the prelude event and the magically balletic Buttenwieser Concert in the Koussevitzky Shed provided a quintessential Tanglewood experience for all in attendance.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
classical-scene.com | Julie R. Ingelfinger
Saturday afternoon’s Rockport Chamber Music Festival concert featured a level of emotions immortalized in music to rival those in literature, through old and new viewpoints. Innovative harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, whose appearance last year enchanted, joined the Viano String Quartet (Lucy Wang and Hao Zhou, violin; Aiden Kane, viola; and Tate Zawadiuk, cello), as did flutist Demarre McGill and bassist Jeremy McCoy in a program spanning from Baroque through Now.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
classical-scene.com | Julie R. Ingelfinger
At the waning hours of Thursday’s all-too-rare temperate June day, the dreamily programmed Rockport Chamber Music Festival concert of the Viano Quartet with harpist Bridget Kibbey along with Demarre McGill, flute; Clarinetist Chris Elchico, and double bassist Jeremy McCoy, provided just the right dessert.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
classical-scene.com | Julie R. Ingelfinger
In a smart move, the BSO changed the order of this week’s first-half program. As Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s evocative and riveting 2022 ARCHORA deserved primacy, it opened Thursday night’s subscription concert. After that, Mozart’s 33rd Symphony sounded, well, staidly dated. Following intermission, Hilary Hahn’s intelligent warmth pervaded Symphony Hall with a sagaciously bravura Brahms Violin Concerto.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
nejm.org | C. Corey Hardin |Dan L. Longo |Julie R. Ingelfinger
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
classical-scene.com | Julie R. Ingelfinger
Looking affably avuncular, towering pianist Garrick Ohlsson strode onto the Jordan Hall stage for this Easter afternoon Boston Symphony Chamber Players concert, featuring befitting Bach, followed by Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps, perhaps epitomizing it. I dare say most who attended were glad of their decision to forego or postpone a holiday dinner. For one thing, Ohlsson and the other superb musicians exemplified sentience without gravity.
