Johann Ludwig Bach’s Uns ist ein Kind geboren benefited from a similar attention to detail. Setting the same text from the ...

The Handel and Haydn Society masterfully highlighted the drama and subtle details of Handel’s rarely heard cantatas Delirio ...

There’s madness in love and, as Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt reminds, there’s madness in death, too. On Thursday night, the Boston Symphony Orchestra brought the composer’s operatic study ...

The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under founding conductor Benjamin Zander opened their season Sunday at Symphony Hall with an intense program devoted to the relationship between old and new.

Verdi was an opera composer at his core and his Messa da Requiem exemplifies what happens when theatrical sensibilities meet a sacred text. In some ways, his dramatic style can feel distracting from ...

To judge from his appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons on Thursday night, Yo-Yo Ma isn’t just the world’s most famous cellist. He’s also a collegial mensch. No sooner had ...

Back in the early days of the pandemic, when the future of orchestral concerts looked bleak, there was concern in some corners that the era of programming great Romantic warhorses, with their ...

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 ...

In music as in love, passion can be a double-edged sword. Take the Jerusalem Quartet’s performance at Jordan Hall on Friday night. Nobody’s about to argue that the ensemble’s Celebrity ...

Try though they might, not every season opener qualifies as a bona fide “event.” But Music Worcester’s did on Friday night. With the Philip Glass Ensemble on hand to curate a selection of the iconic ...