Reviewing the Cantata Singers and Ensemble.
Boston Globe, March 21, 2011.
Globe Articles
If you want the job done right, you gotta use the proper tools
Reviewing the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin.
Boston Globe, March 15, 2011.
We’re still singing that same song
Reviewing Paavali Jumppanen.
Boston Globe, March 15, 2011.
Until the world we roam, how can we be sure?
Reviewing the Emerson String Quartet and Sir James Galway.
Boston Globe, March 14, 2011.
Steve Smith’s review of the players’ Saturday performance in New York, including the Adès premiere, can, and indeed, should be read here.
But when u got it baby, nothing come 2 hard
Reviewing Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
Boston Globe, March 1, 2011.
That was the curious incident
Reviewing the Boston Philharmonic.
Boston Globe, February 28, 2011.
What’s there is cherce
Reviewing the Takács Quartet.
Boston Globe, February 21, 2011.
Second time around
Reviewing Yehudi Wyner’s Fragments from Antiquity with the Lexington Symphony and Dominique Labelle.
Boston Globe, February 7, 2011.
It’s either sadness or euphoria
Reviewing Joshua Bell and Sam Haywood.
Boston Globe, February 7, 2011.
Multiplicity
Reviewing NEC’s “Salute to Franz Liszt.”
Boston Globe, February 1, 2010.
Sergey Schepkin sent a nice e-mail clarifying that the four-hand arrangement of the “Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2” was not Liszt’s own, as was listed in the program, but that of Liszt’s student Franz Bendel—to which Schepkin added additional ornaments and Hungarian-style scintillation. (Bendel, incidentally, performed at the famous 1872 “World’s Peace Jubilee” in Boston; two years later, while on another tour, he died in Boston after being stricken with typhoid fever.)