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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...