Richard Dyer’s classical picks
- Orchestral: James Levine concerts with Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Opera: John Adams’s ‘‘Nixon in China,’’ Opera Boston
- New work: ‘‘Ayre,’’ by Osvaldo Golijov (Bank of America Celebrity
Series)
- Concerto: Garrick Ohlsson playing Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, conductor
- Piano recital: Leon Fleisher (Bank of America Celebrity Series)
- Early music: ‘‘Andromeda Liberata,’’ by Vivaldi and others, performed
by the Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon, conductor
(Boston Early Music Festival)
- Chamber music series: ‘‘John Harbison and His World’’ (Emmanuel
Music)
- Vocal recital: mezzo-soprano Mitsuko Shirai, with pianist Hartmut
Hoell (Houghton Library’s Chamber Music Series)
- Choral: Blue Heron Renaissance Choir, English Renaissance choral
music
- Uniquely Boston-style series: ‘‘Tuesdays With Sebastian,’’ with keyboard
artists Peter Sykes and Christa Rakich
- Musician of the year: James Levine
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