Pianist Alessandro Deljavan, a frequent BPO collaborator, brought both technical command and intense introspection to the ...

Opening with the gauzy halo of Rachmaninoff’s “Bogoroditse Djevo,” the Back Bay Chorale ushered its near-capacity audience ...

The most familiar of those was Ravel’s lush Shéhérazade, a collection of three songs that seem tailor-made for Bridges and ...

What is an encore supposed to do? Delight, entrance, entertain? Send an audience out into the night with smiles on their faces? Or should it be more substantial and offer a serious musical statement?

The end of a matter, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, is better than its beginning. Though that reality isn’t borne out in every situation, the sentiment largely applies to Beethoven’s nine ...

“[Bleeping] family,” Jeff Goldblum’s Zeus mutters in an early episode of Netflix’s Kaos. He could easily have been referring to the dysfunctional brood at the heart of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s ...

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.

Tianhui Ng’s tenure as the New England Philharmonic’s new music director kicked off in style Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall. Granted, it was just one concert, but on the merits the new era looks a ...

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 ...

At the start of their 45th season, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra shows no signs of slowing down in their proverbial middle age. Benjamin Zander, their founder and sole conductor all these years, ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a program of Liadov, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff Thursday evening at Symphony Hall. Led by conductor Eun Sun Kim in her BSO debut and featuring pianist Inon ...

Beware of ideas, Joseph Stalin once warned: they are more powerful than guns. “We would not let our enemies have guns,” he went on. “Why should we let them have ideas?” That statement might make a ...