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 ...

Thursday’s concert from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons didn’t quite go to such extremes. But its mashup of ...

To lead off the afternoon, Zander and the Philharmonic offered a characterful traversal of Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz ...

Musing on decades-old twists of fate isn’t exactly a Zander pastime—his is generally a forward-thinking, in-the-moment type ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Composers don’t usually apologize for the music they write. But Franz Josef Haydn saw fit to put a disclaimer on the end of Part 2 of his oratorio, Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons). “This whole passage ...

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 ...

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.

Shakespeare, for once, had it backwards: better three hours too soon, his Master Ford tells us, than one minute too late. For their first appearance in Boston since October 2001, the adage might be ...