Felix Broede: Okisawa; Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Midori
Now available on demand: Nodoka Okisawa, a protégée of former BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa, makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut with Takemitsu’s “Requiem for strings,” as well as Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony and Violin Concerto with soloist Midori.
What makes an opera performance great? GBH Music partnered with Boston Lyric Opera, New England Conservatory of Music, and legendary opera singers Patricia Racette, Susan Graham, and Davóne Tines to explore an extraordinary art form.
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Retiring after nearly 30 years at Classical Radio Boston and GBH Music, Alan McLellan shares what’s changed, what’s stayed the same, and what he’s learned over his wide-ranging career. -
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Anna Hander conducts the rarely heard Violin Concerto by Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann with soloist Joshua Bell, and the kaleidoscopic brilliance of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition -
On The Bach Hour, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini leads his Italian ensemble in unique re-imaginings of Bach's music, and Konrad Junghänel conducts the Missa Brevis in F. -
Dima Slobodeniouk conducts the Boston Symphony in the highly anticipated world premiere of Tania León’s Time to Time, followed by Roberto Sierra’s Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra featuring soloist James Carter, as well as Brahms’s lyrically pastoral Second Symphony.
From NPR Music
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Snider's supercharged relationship with her art form and open-book stance on depression and anxiety shine through in her new opera, which debuts this week in Los Angeles. -
The Spanish singer Rosalía talks about her new album 'Lux,' a head-spinning, epic album that features classical music, opera and the artist singing in 13 languages.
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On The Bach Hour, the first of the composer's six-part narrative for the season expresses joy, doubt, and wonder in a concert performance led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
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