![]() BSO music director Andris Nelsons will conduct this tragic masterpiece with a cast that includes such luminaries as Bo Skovhus (in the title role), Christine Goerke and Sasha Cook (March 10 and 12). Vying for first place would have to be the concert performance of Berg’s “ Wozzeck,” a major landmark of 20th-century opera and surely the opera event of the season. Adès will begin with what has unfortunately become a relatively rare performance of one of the greatest 20th-century orchestral pieces, Alban Berg’s “Three Pieces for Orchestra” (last played by the BSO under James Levine in 2010) and will close with Ravel’s more familiar - and diabolical - “La Valse.” 27-29), who will be leading the brilliant pianist Kirill Gerstein in a much-desired repeat performance of Adès’ 2019 Piano Concerto (a piece which left me partially puzzled at its premiere but which I was most eager to hear again), as well as Ravel’s scintillating Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. I’m especially looking forward to the programs with such guest conductors as the venerable Herbert Blomstedt and Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša works by three outstanding contemporary composers who all happen to be women: Augusta Read Thomas, Kaija Saariaho and Unsuk Chin and such stellar soloists as pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Yefim Bronfman and Igor Levit, violinists Hilary Hahn, Baiba Skride and Leonidas Kavakos.īut at the very top of my list is the concert conducted by BSO resident “artistic partner” (and composer/conductor/pianist/writer) Thomas Adès (Jan. ![]() I don’t see much in the way of an artistic statement by its music director Andris Nelsons, but there isn’t a single program coming up that doesn’t hold some interest. The BSO, one of the world’s leading instrumental ensembles, has to head any list of coming attractions in Boston. BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | VISITING CELEBRITIES | OTHER ORCHESTRAL MUSIC | OPERA | CONTEMPORARY MUSIC | CHORAL MUSIC | EARLY MUSIC | CHAMBER MUSIC But I live in hope, so here’s a list of performances (mainly live) that I hope will keep us warm, body and soul, before spring. If something in the following list tempts you, please check first to make sure it’s actually taking place. And it was harshly over-amplified - the nemesis of live classical music or opera.Īt this moment, it’s hard to predict the immediate future of live performances. Boston Lyric Opera at a Seaport District rock venue was hard to get to and parking was expensive (is there a single handicapped parking space in the entire district?). The one Celebrity Series concert I attended at the GBH Calderwood Studio had uncomfortable folding chairs and slightly dead acoustics. Many of the performance venues themselves were unfamiliar, and sometimes unsatisfying. Eager as I was to go out last year, I heard most of my “live” events at home on my computer. ![]() Musical venues finally reopened for live performances (which is what music lovers were craving, weren’t we?), but few events were sold out, and wonderful as it was to hear the sound of live music again (there’s nothing like it), nagging doubts remained, despite all the precautions, about being in public places, too close to people we didn’t necessarily know. (Courtesy Marco Borggreve) This article is more than 1 year old. Andris Nelsons conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2018.
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