A line-up of concerts, performances, and recordings that, as 2017 draws to its close, I can't, for one reason or many, shake from my memory.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24PM[SHARE]Matthias Goerne offers proof that he is the Wagner baritone of the day. And Thierry Fischer's understanding of Mahler deserves our admiration.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:24PM[SHARE]Highlights include an excellent Tchaikovsky symphony cycle in modern sound and one of the year's best chamber-music albums.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AM[SHARE]Reviews of performances that are energetic, immediate, muscular, and simply breathtaking.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:04AM[SHARE]A hell-for-leather approach to Schubert has its drawbacks; for all the sheen of Juan Diego Flórez's singing, he doesn't always seem at home in the music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:04AM[SHARE]Francois-Xavier Roth's Mahler is full of energy; the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic's account of Randall Thompson's Symphony no. 2 is gripping.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:12PM[SHARE]Child Alice is an important addition to the recorded catalogue of major American symphonic music.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:24AM[SHARE]The BSO's performance of the Alpine Symphony had purpose and direction.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AM[SHARE]Leann Osterkamp's playing is rhythmically alive and sympathetic to Leonard Bernstein's style; Seong-Jin Cho shows that he is an important pianist to watch.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:54PM[SHARE]The BPYO is as responsive, confident, technically skilled, and emotionally expressive an orchestra as they come.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AM[SHARE]In honor of what would have been Leonard Bernstein's hundredth birthday, the Tanglewood Festival is pulling out all the stops.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:24AM[SHARE]There's a remarkable breadth and depth, both textural and musical, to this collection of songs and dances that date back to the earliest years of the Republic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:04PM[SHARE]Far more impressive than pianist Martha Argerich's impeccable mechanical abilities are her interpretive chops. Here, she's truly in a league of her own.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:24PM[SHARE]Nothing sleepy about the playing or the interpretations in the Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax disc; New Hampshire's Heather Gilligan is a composer to watch.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36AM[SHARE]This is one of the year's standout orchestral albums and it's a special treat to catch the ensemble live on these shores so soon after its release.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:33AM[SHARE]Two great tenor discs have recently been released
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:18PM[SHARE]For my taste, too much of the stage action during Friday's performance was stiff and shopworn.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:54PM[SHARE]One of Andris Nelsons' great gifts as an interpreter is his ability to shape and develop large-scale musical forms.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:42PM[SHARE]Ebony Quartet serves up a "must-hear" album of music from between the world wars.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:12AM[SHARE]Soprano Joyce El-Khoury sings spectacularly in her new disc, Echo.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AM[SHARE]Hindemith and Britten could hardly have asked for more committed advocates than Steinbacher, Jurowski, and the RSOB.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AM[SHARE]If there's an essential "Leonard Bernstein at 100" album, this one, so far, is it: excellent performances of relatively unknown music deserving to be heard.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42AM[SHARE]Saturday's performance ranked among Odyssey Opera's finest and most artistically satisfying undertakings.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:33AM[SHARE]Some institutions' offerings aren't as challenging as they could be, but there's a healthy balance between the familiar and new.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:54AM[SHARE]An early highlight of the upcoming Leonard Bernstein centennial is Sony Classical's 25-disc box set.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:33AM[SHARE]Michael Tilson Thomas proves he's got Alban Berg's style in his blood; Pablo Heras-Casado's Mendelssohn symphony cycle continues to be stylish.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:04PM[SHARE]Sit Fast's performances are breathtaking for their clarity and emotional involvement; Vladimir Jurowski serves up a ho-hum, un-monumental an interpretation of a late-Romantic pillar.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:48PM[SHARE]The Classical Collection proves that violinist Joshua Bell is only now entering his prime; the Baltic Chamber Orchestra serves up a grim and underwhelming disc.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AM[SHARE]A wonderful new performance of Mahler's three orchestral song cycles; Daniel Reuss's account of the oratorio Le Roi David is basically flawless.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:36PM[SHARE]Violinist Sebastian Bohren's album is uneven; violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov have produced a wonder.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:54PM[SHARE]The Heath Quartet delivers a triumphant Bartók cycle; Natalie Dessay's Schubert misses the mark widely.
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