Lee Eiseman

An exquisitely detailed love quadrangle materialized among Tchaikovsky, Andris Nelsons, the more-than-willing BSO players, and us engrossed votaries in a Saturday night shed concert that also welcomed Jean-Yves Thibaudet in the Katchaturian Piano concerto and Tania Leon’s sparkling opener.

With its distinctive voice and dramatic engagement, the Jupiter String Quartet, impressed the Concord Chamber Music Society audience at the Concord Academy stage on Sunday afternoon.

This week’s BSO subscription concerts (Hannah Kendall’s O flower of fire (American premiere), Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra) welcome back pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the British-Italian-American conductor Sir Anthony Pappano. In his previous BSO stint, Sir A

Boston Symphony Chamber players kept the focus on winds, though piano and strings also took their places on the Jordan Hall stage Sunday afternoon.

Labyrinth, Menotti’s 50-minute blend of satire, surrealism, and moralizing received its American stage debut in Cambridge Chamber Ensemble’s clever revival at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center lats night. See it tonight or Sunday afternoon. Tickets HERE.

Cherry Orchard Festival brought Maxim Vengerov and Polina Osetinskaya to Symphony Hall last night. Especially in the second half, elegance, engagement, freshness of approach, and fearlessness abounded. The show reprises in Worcester's Mechanics Hall on Sunday. Tickets HERE.

A near-full house at First Church in Boston on Sunday afternoon witnessed a thoroughly fresh and exuberant vibe reflecting exciting intimations of what four (mostly) late-adolescent composers would become..

In the sensitive hands of Evan Wong, New England Conservatory’s debuting American Steinway Model D while the Joachim-Ellman Strad responded to William Wei’s old-master sensibilities in an important and memorable concert for the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts on Saturday night at Jordan Hall.

In “Crossing the Deep,” the Handel and Haydn Society unbuttoned its collars and opened its tent for a totally unexpected call-and-response revival meeting at Jordan Hall on Friday night; the musical theater happening reprises this afternoon.

Gabriel Chodos died on Saturday at the age of 85 after a long decline. He had chaired the NEC piano department for 25 years. Renowned as a teacher*, concert artist, and recording artist, Chodos also spent many summers as a mainstay of the Aspen Music Festival faculty. With Aube Tzerko—a Schnabel stu