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Interpreting Emotional Turmoil: Mitsuko Uchida and the BSO Tackle Beethoven and Shostakovich

By Daniel Wang  • 

The challenge in performing these two pieces thus lies in the balance between conveying the compositions’ intended effect and capturing each piece’s musical details. Saturday’s performance was a valiant effort, but not without a few stumbles.

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Arts

A Symphonic World on Show: Andris Nelsons and the BSO Perform Mahler’s Sixth

By Daniel Wang  • 

Throughout the evening’s performance, the orchestra crafted wonderful phrases with natural beginnings but lost the tragic impulse of Mahler’s music as a result.

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Arts

Piano Pyrotechnics: Yuja Wang and the BSO Perform Shostakovich, Haydn, Adolphe

By Daniel Wang  • 

Yuja Wang’s excellence breathed new life into Shostakovich’s work, redeeming an otherwise bland performance by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Arts

A Symphony of Flavors: Tasting Menus, Revisited

By Daniel Wang  • 

The position of the culinary arts within the world of creative expression is much like that of a 12-year-old in a college seminar.