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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Composers can’t always be trusted to objectively assess their own works. However, William Walton’s appraisal of his Cello Concerto holds up: “It is to my mind the best of my three concertos,” he wrote ...

Seventieth birthdays are big deals. When Leonard Bernstein marked the milestone in 1988, the Boston Symphony threw him a three-day-long bash at Tanglewood that included a three-hour concert in the ...

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 ...