Shakespeare, for once, had it backwards: better three hours too soon, his Master Ford tells us, than one minute too late. For their first appearance in Boston since October 2001, the adage might be ...

Bartolomeo Montalbano’s Sinfonia Quarta “Geloso” immediately set the tone for the evening. Flexible phrasing and sensitive ...

Schnittke’s String Quartet No. 2, on the other hand, hails from an entirely different world, historically, stylistically, and expressively. Written in 1980 as a memorial to the composer’s friend, ...

Talk about a strong finish: while the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s spring season runs through May, the ensemble’s two-month streak of concerts showcasing major new and unfamiliar repertoire that began ...

Celebrating its 150th season in “A Feast of Remembrance,” Boston Cecilia, led by music director Michael Barrett, offered a program of Bach, Handel, and Purcell Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall that ...

“I do not ask for my music to be interpreted,” Maurice Ravel once offered. “Just that it be played.” If only the French master could have been at Jordan Hall on Friday night when the Danish String ...

While such a complex score requires more than one hearing to grasp its full measure, Salonen seems to have crafted a work that, despite its challenges and headiness, is vivid and—in the best ...

“[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 ...

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 ...

The Handel and Haydn Society might be the country’s oldest performing arts institution, but it certainly is projecting—and performing with–the vigor of youth this week. On Monday, the ensemble ...

Over the years, Dante Alighieri’s Commedia has been the impetus for any number of musical works. Yet, aside from Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, few are firmly established in the canon. On the ...

No one ever accused Gustav Mahler of taking the easy route. Even so, the Austrian composer’s Symphony No. 3 develops a programmatic concept that stretches the genre almost to its breaking point.