On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in the composer's musical confrontation with the capriciousness of life.
CRB Blog
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Alexander Vavilov, a violist and co-founder of the Sheffield Chamber Players, set up the Relief Fund for Ukrainian Musicians in collaboration with the King Baudouin Foundation United States, which provides direct financial assistance to the artists.
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Classical composers know that the sound of spring has a lot to do with the sound of birds.
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The pop superstar brought Debussy as her date to the Met Gala this week! Plus, can an orchestra be publicly traded? And what do your music tastes say about your personality? It's all inside this week's roundup!
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The Celebrity Series of Boston presents the British siblings in concert at Symphony Hall, and Chris Voss looks into the qualities that make their performances so compelling.
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From NPR Music
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On a new album, the most accessible so far, the Grammy-winning group reaches out to an EDM wizard, a famous film score composer and Philip Glass.
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A composer, performer and installation artist from the Navajo Nation, Chacon's winning piece, Voiceless Mass, was composed for chamber orchestra and a specific Milwaukee pipe organ.
On Demand
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On The Bach Hour, the composer's "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" charts a course from dark sorrow to resolute peace in a performance by Collegium Vocale of Ghent and their director, Philippe Herreweghe.
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Closing out the 2021-2022 Boston Symphony Orchestra season, BSO Principal Cellist Blaise Déjardin is center-stage in Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto No. 1, and Andris Nelsons conducts Richard Strauss's panoramic "An Alpine Symphony" and a selection from the composer's "Intermezzo," on demand.
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On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, Czech conductor Václav Luks also leads lesser-known music by Voříšek and Bologne, on demand.
El Puerto Rico
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For his contribution to "El Puerto Rico," Christian Quiñones asked his mother to write something that he could use as an inspiration. What she gave him was an insight into the mind of a new mother.
Out of the Box
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Inspired by several paintings hanging at the Louvre in Paris, this wonderful work for chamber orchestra is a perfect candidate for Out of the Box -- a fusing of visual and audio art that brings both to life with seductive magic.
The Bach Hour
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On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in the composer's musical confrontation with the capriciousness of life.
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