Continuing their tradition of showcasing world-class soloists alongside talented young symphonic musicians, the Boston ...

Friday’s interpretation was outstandingly refined and decidedly Classical in approach. Trifonov’s playing across the ...

Or so it sounded on Sunday afternoon, when the Viano Quartet assayed the score as part of their Celebrity Series debut at Groton Hill Music’s Meadow Hall. Winners of this year’s prestigious Avery ...

The night’s big item was the latter’s Requiem, heard in its 1948 version for organ, choir, and soloists. Originally commissioned as an orchestral tone poem by the Vichy regime, Duruflé’s score ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Neither snow nor ice nor frigid temperatures stayed the Handel & Haydn Society from their appointment Sunday afternoon. One day after a Nor’easter dropped nearly two feet of snow on Boston and as the ...

That the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra has made a habit of performing the symphonies of Gustav Mahler shouldn’t blind one to the fact that doing so is completely out of the ordinary: this music ...

Handel’s Messiah (1741) is a staple of the American Christmas tradition. Even though the bulk of the piece focuses on Christ’s death and resurrection, many of Boston’s fine ensembles perform the ...