The work in question was the composer’s Opus 95, twenty minutes of seething turbulence in (mostly) F minor that ends with a ...

Symphony Hall, which celebrates its quasquicentennial on October 15, received the former over the summer. The walls have been ...

Clad in a poncho, baritone Marcelo Guzzo, brought commanding presence and a resonant timbre to his role as vocalist and guide ...

Nothing says “Happy 125 th Birthday” like a gentle facelift. Symphony Hall, which celebrates its quasquicentennial on October 15, received the former over the summer. The walls have been repainted, ...

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 ...

The Handel & Haydn Society wasted no time getting into the spirit of this year’s extra-long Christmas season, returning to Symphony Hall on Friday night for their annual traversal of George Frederic ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra presented a program of Liadov, Bartók, and Rachmaninoff Thursday evening at Symphony Hall. Led by conductor Eun Sun Kim in her BSO debut and featuring pianist Inon ...

There are few great works upon which fame has shone more unwillingly than Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor—at least so far as the Boston Symphony Orchestra is concerned. True, this ...

Music by Mahler, Loeffler, Koechlin, Saint-Saëns and Beach. Boston Symphony Chamber Players/Earl Lee. October 5. The upcoming 250 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence promises plenty of ...

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 ...

“[Bleeping] family,” Jeff Goldblum’s Zeus mutters in an early episode of Netflix’s Kaos. He could easily have been referring to the dysfunctional brood at the heart of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s ...

What’s a production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida without elephants? Cheaper and less complicated to put on than the alternative, for one. It was also the look Boston Lyric Opera went with for their ...