Nelsons and the BSO were on firmer footing in the Adagio, whose searing denouement sang with righteous fury. Also impressive ...

Take its narrative. Ostensibly, the Eleventh commemorates the “Bloody Sunday” massacre of Russian peasantry by imperial ...

It’s no secret that Arnold Schoenberg admired Johannes Brahms. Less well-known is the fact that the latter reciprocated: shortly before his death in 1897, the man Schumann once dubbed the heir to ...

There’s nothing quite as wonderful as when an instrument begins to breathe, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra certainly knows how to make their instruments sing. Sunday afternoon’s program at Second ...

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks? The Boston Symphony Orchestra—now in its 144 th season—trotted out a fresh one with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk on Thursday night: eschewing the usual ...

There are few great works upon which fame has shone more unwillingly than Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor—at least so far as the Boston Symphony Orchestra is concerned. True, this ...

Spring, the comedian Robin Williams once declared, is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” Mozart’s Haffner Symphony and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 are a couple of musical equivalents to that ...

Perhaps it was inevitable that violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Jan Lisiecki would team up for a duo recital. Both musicians are artists of the first rank and masters of their respective ...

A sold-out Symphony Hall witnessed a moving performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”) by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Benjamin Zander Friday night.