"Just for the record, last Sunday's program by Les Violons du Roy, the excellent Quebec-based chamber orchestra, and another notable French-Canadian, pianist Marc-André Hamelin, for the Shriver Hall Concert Series was a thorough charmer."

"The burnished sound of the ensemble proved as impressive as the incisive phrasing, nowhere more so than in the waltzing second theme of the opening movement, which could not have been more subtly inflected."

"The frigid cold may have kept some listeners home, but it did not deter the Jerusalem Quartet from playing at Shriver Hall on Sunday evening. The ensemble arrived in Baltimore only a short time before the concert was scheduled to begin, because of weather-related flight troubles, and the cellist, whose suitcase was lost, wore jeans — but when they played, all such cares were forgotten."

"Audiences are accustomed to stellar musicians and inspired music-making on the Shriver Hall Concert Series, so, in one sense, Sunday evening's event was business as usual. But, of course, it was a heck of a lot more."

"The music-making by Isserlis and Canadian pianist Connie Shih was consistently rewarding…"

"The combination of glamor and charm that is so much a part of soprano Danielle de Niese makes for quite a beguiling force. It was on full display Sunday evening in a recital presented by the Shriver Hall Concert Series."

"This ensemble from England has developed exceptional cohesiveness in terms of artistic temperament and technique. The players have a way of making music sound freshly composed, even as they make clear just how long and intimately they have lived with every note."

"Trumpet recitals are among the rarest of events in the classical music realm. It's just a guess on my part, but I imagine that recitals by female trumpeters have tended to be ever so slightly rarer. Which is to say that Sunday evening's appearance by Tine Thing Helseth for the Shriver Hall Concert Series was extra cool.

"Baltimore has experienced a bounty of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, among others, in recent days.