Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, making its first appearance on a BSO subscription concert since 2016, received a roiling, shapely reading. Here and in that composer’s Symphony No. 5, Nagano mined an ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Composers don’t usually apologize for the music they write. But Franz Josef Haydn saw fit to put a disclaimer on the end of Part 2 of his oratorio, Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons). “This whole passage ...

The Esplanade was packed for the finale of Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s 25th anniversary. Even the geese showed up on cue, both onstage and off. Christopher Wilkins led the Boston Landmarks Orchestra ...

The rain cleared Wednesday night just in time for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra to open its free summer season with a “Best of Boston” concert at the Hatch Shell. Music director Christopher Wilkins ...

Symphony Hall was ablaze with music, dance, and poetry Friday night as the Back Bay Chorale, in collaboration with the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and the Boston Children’s Choir, performed Carl ...

Nothing beats a good opening. As it happened, Thursday’s concert from the Boston Symphony Orchestra boasted two of the canon’s best hooks. The first bars of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9—quiet, spare, ...

Roll over, Beethoven—or don’t. The German great, who died 200 years ago next March, is the unifying thread for Vivo Performing Arts’ 2026-27 classical music season, which was announced Tuesday. Not ...

The New England Philharmonic closed its 49th season Saturday night at First Church Cambridge, with a program centered on Krzysztof Penderecki’s mighty Credo. The evening began with Cantares by NEP ...

Evgeny Kissin and Andrey Boreyko restored a seldom-heard Scriabin concerto to the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s repertoire Thursday night at Symphony Hall, anchoring a Russian-leaning program of ...