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J.S. Bach

Berkshire Bach Society

by The Staff December 27, 2012

If it’s New Year’s, there must be Bach—as in, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his baroque brethren, performed by the Berkshire Bach Society. This year’s program, which will be performed on successive days ...

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Albany Symphony Orchestra

by The Staff October 11, 2012

If you crave a big orchestral sound, the Albany Symphony is going to deliver one this weekend in two concerts at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. The program for both shows is titled Bach’s Magnificat, ...

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Berkshire Bach Society

by The Staff December 30, 2011

It’s a New Year’s tradition: The Berkshire Bach Society, under the direction of harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper, will perform J.S. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concerti in Great Barrington and Troy. It is among the most celebrated music ...

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

St. Petersburg String Quartet

by The Staff November 22, 2011

This Saturday evening, the St. Petersburg String Quartet, an ensemble the Los Angeles Times praised as “masters of subtlety and refinement,” will perform at Emma Willard School’s Kiggins Hall. Alla Aranovskaya and Evgeny Zvonnikov (violins), Boris ...

Emma Willard School

Musical Affinities

by B.A. Nilsson October 26, 2011

Aaron Jay Kernis (pictured left) is the Albany Symphony’s “mentor composer” this season, and last weekend’s concerts featured a fascinating variety of Kernis-related musical shadings, performed with the kind of brio and skill that reminds ...

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin

by The Staff October 26, 2011

Close Encounters With Music will begin their 20th year of chamber music concerts with the prompt return of the “outrageously virtuosic” Chamber Orchestra Kremlin. Led by Misha Rachlevsky (pictured), last year’s performance inspired our friends ...

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center