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Music Review: Giving Chamber Repertory Some Dashes of Adventure

Posted: August 26th, 2008, 2:43am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

The Zukofsky Quartet seems intent on looking past the favorites of the quartet repertory and exploring works that may not yet have had a fair hearing.

The French Horn, That Wild Card of the Orchestra

Posted: August 13th, 2008, 3:01am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

Orchestral instruments don’t come more treacherous than the French horn, either for the musicians who play it, or, when the going gets rough, for the listeners who find themselves within earshot.

Music Review | Jeremy Denk: Making Just One Sonata Last All Night

Posted: August 8th, 2008, 2:12am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

Jeremy Denk gave a nuanced, finely detailed performance of Schubert’s B flat Sonata (D. 960) at the Kaplan Penthouse on Wednesday.

Music Review | Concerto Italiano: Period Instruments Played With a Sense of Roman Brio

Posted: August 7th, 2008, 4:58am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

On Monday and Tuesday at the Rose Theater the Mostly Mozart Festival presented Concerto Italiano, a Roman ensemble founded in 1984.

Music Review | 'La Clemenza di Tito': The Quality of Mercy, Explained in an Opera

Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:40am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

Edward Gardner led a polished and lucid performance of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito” on Sunday at the Rose Theater as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival.

Music Review | Jeffrey Swann: A Time to Play and a Time to Talk

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:31am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

Jeffrey Swann’s program on Thursday was called “Music of Ghost Stories, the Fantastic, the Bizarre.”

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Music Review: Levine Wages Berlioz’s Trojan War

Posted: July 8th, 2008, 4:43am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

James Levine opened the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer season at Tanglewood with a concert performance of Berlioz’s biggest, meatiest and most hair-raisingly passionate score, the opera “Les Troyens.”

Music Review: Portraying Spirituality of Messiaen as Organist

Posted: May 31st, 2008, 4:18am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

ForGail Archer’s six-concert tour finale, on Thursday evening, she performed the huge “Livre du Saint Sacrement” (1984) at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Music Review: A Feisty String Orchestra With Shades of Pop Music

Posted: May 29th, 2008, 3:40am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

The four works Sonyc presented at the Kitchen on Tuesday evening were all from the more accessible precincts of the contemporary repertory.

Music Review | Till Fellner: Pianist of Apollonian Finesse Finds His Inner Dionysus

Posted: May 8th, 2008, 3:52am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

At Zankel Hall on Tuesday Mr. Fellner was as thoughtful and surprising as ever in his performance of works by Mozart, Schumann, Lizst, Holliger and Ravel.

Music Review | Washington National Opera: Amid the Baroque and the Bluster, Love Blossoms

Posted: May 2nd, 2008, 3:15am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

After a run at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Plácido Domingo sang his first American Bajazet on Wednesday in a new Washington National Opera production of “Tamerlano” at the Kennedy Center.

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Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Dieter’s Portion of a Hearty French Meal

Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:30am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

The program seemed promising in prospect. But expectations were quickly deflated.

Music Review | Pocket Concertos: Reaching the Final Turn in 3 Years of Bumpy Road

Posted: March 29th, 2008, 1:04am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

Even by the adventurous standards of the Miller Theater, the Pocket Concertos series that it started in 2006 came with built-in land mines.

Music Review: With Minimal Movement, a Musical Trek Through Time

Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:15am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

The inventive new-music ensemble Counter)induction called its Tuesday-night program at Merkin Concert Hall “Fast Forward: Composers at the Edge.”

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A Fond Look at Lennon’s ‘Lost Weekend’

Posted: March 12th, 2008, 10:59am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

May Pang’s new book, “Instamatic Karma,” is a 140-page collection of casual photos that Ms. Pang took during her time with John Lennon.

Music Review: Soprano Returns, Bellini and Komitas in Tow

Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:37am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

On Saturday evening, the Armenian-Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian was in fighting trim, or at least fine voice, in a recital at Zankel Hall.

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Music Review: In a Pianist’s Expanding Repertory, Currents of Energy, Humor and Drama

Posted: March 11th, 2008, 4:30am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

When Garrick Ohlsson played in the Peoples’ Symphony Concert at Town Hall on Sunday afternoon, he made a point of demanding quiet.