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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“I hate quotation,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. “Tell me what you know.” Well, there’s no question that Carlos Simon knows the charismatic black church. The son of a preacher, the Boston Symphony ...

Since its founding in 1881, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has cultivated relationships with some notable composers: Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Thomas Adès ...

A smart pairing of Mozart and Haydn with a Telemann rarity by artistic director Jonathan Cohen produced an unusually unified and rewarding concert by the Handel and Haydn Society Friday night at a ...

Happiness, George Burns once quipped, is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Samuel Barber’s Vanessa showcases an alternative: the opera, with its libretto by Gian Carlo ...

Move over Johann Strauss: nothing says “Happy New Year” like Mozart. That was the case for the Boston Artists Ensemble on Sunday afternoon, when a capacity crowd gathered at Brookline’s St. Paul’s ...

Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra continued their streak of impressive operas-in-concert with January’s powerfully sung, iridescently played ensemble premiere of Korngold’s Hitchcockian ...

Continuing their tradition of showcasing world-class soloists alongside talented young symphonic musicians, the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra treated their audience to a program of roiling and ...

“When good Americans die,” Oscar Wilde said, “they go to Paris.” Sometimes, though, Paris comes to America. So it happened that the Orchestre National de France found itself at Mechanics Hall in ...