Thursday’s concert from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons didn’t quite go to such extremes. But its mashup of ...

Regardless, Liu’s take on the Bourrée was marked by exuberant freshness and the Loure sang with an appealing blend of ...

To lead off the afternoon, Zander and the Philharmonic offered a characterful traversal of Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz ...

Such was the case on Thursday night when the conductor presided over the American premiere of Francisco Coll’s Piano Concerto ...

After intermission, Bach’s Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849, in an arrangement by Nicholas Kitchen, first violinist of the Borromeo Quartet, came as a shock. Clean, precise, and energetic, it sounded ...

Subtlety may deceive you, Oliver Cromwell warned. Integrity never will. The adage would apply, it seems, both to the title character in Rossini’s opera William Tell—he’s a man of action and his ...

It’s not easy coming out of retirement. But when Brahms heard clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld play, he was so inspired that he threw caution to the wind and began composing again. He wrote to Clara ...

John Milton is having a moment in Boston this fall. Next month, Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, which draws heavily on the poet’s epic, Paradise Lost, makes its way to Symphony Hall. Meanwhile, this ...

“Britten saved my life,” Benjamin Zander casually lets drop. The conductor is not being metaphorical. It seems the great English composer played an inadvertent role in shaping Boston’s recent musical ...

Though his American career is most closely associated with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninoff was no stranger to Boston. Between 1909 and 1937, the Russian-born composer-pianist appeared ...

“Muß es sein?” Beethoven scrawled at the beginning of the finale of his last string quartet. That conundrum (“Must it be?”) loomed large for Sofia Gubaidulina, whose music often wrestled with big ...