Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, making its first appearance on a BSO subscription concert since 2016, received a roiling, shapely reading. Here and in that composer’s Symphony No. 5, Nagano mined an ...
Thursday’s concert from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons didn’t quite go to such extremes. But its mashup of ...
After intermission, Bach’s Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849, in an arrangement by Nicholas Kitchen, first violinist of the Borromeo Quartet, came as a shock. Clean, precise, and energetic, it sounded ...
The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra will shut down permanently after the 2026-2027 season after 48 years of bringing classical music to area concertgoers. Managing director Sean Lewis announced Tuesday ...
Evgeny Kissin and Andrey Boreyko restored a seldom-heard Scriabin concerto to the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s repertoire Thursday night at Symphony Hall, anchoring a Russian-leaning program of ...
The New England Philharmonic offered a typically bracing program on the theme of New England at Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center on Sunday afternoon. In its exploration of local landscapes ...
Who’s afraid of AI? Not Tod Machover, the visionary MIT-based composer, much of whose career has been spent navigating the relationship between live performance and technology. For the centerpiece of ...
The rain cleared Wednesday night just in time for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra to open its free summer season with a “Best of Boston” concert at the Hatch Shell. Music director Christopher Wilkins ...
Symphony Hall was ablaze with music, dance, and poetry Friday night as the Back Bay Chorale, in collaboration with the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and the Boston Children’s Choir, performed Carl ...
Andris Nelsons’ annual opera-in-concert weekends with the Boston Symphony Orchestra usually showcase the conductor at his best. This year’s surely did, with the culminating installment of the ...
“How can you tell an American?” Washington Irving sings in Act 1 of Kurt Weill’s musical Knickerbocker Holiday. “Has he any distinguishing flavor?” While there wasn’t any Weill on offer at Symphony ...
Subtlety may deceive you, Oliver Cromwell warned. Integrity never will. The adage would apply, it seems, both to the title character in Rossini’s opera William Tell—he’s a man of action and his ...