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 ...

One of the best aspects of Andris Nelsons’ tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been the conductor’s advocacy for a wide swath of contemporary composers. His predecessor, ...

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 ...

John Milton is having a moment in Boston this fall. Next month, Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, which draws heavily on the poet’s epic, Paradise Lost, makes its way to Symphony Hall. Meanwhile, this ...

It’s not easy coming out of retirement. But when Brahms heard clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld play, he was so inspired that he threw caution to the wind and began composing again. He wrote to Clara ...

Though his American career is most closely associated with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninoff was no stranger to Boston. Between 1909 and 1937, the Russian-born composer-pianist appeared ...

“Britten saved my life,” Benjamin Zander casually lets drop. The conductor is not being metaphorical. It seems the great English composer played an inadvertent role in shaping Boston’s recent musical ...

“Muß es sein?” Beethoven scrawled at the beginning of the finale of his last string quartet. That conundrum (“Must it be?”) loomed large for Sofia Gubaidulina, whose music often wrestled with big ...