Bartolomeo Montalbano’s Sinfonia Quarta “Geloso” immediately set the tone for the evening. Flexible phrasing and sensitive ...

Schnittke’s String Quartet No. 2, on the other hand, hails from an entirely different world, historically, stylistically, and ...

Talk about a strong finish: while the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s spring season runs through May, the ensemble’s two-month streak of concerts showcasing major new and unfamiliar repertoire that began ...

Celebrating its 150th season in “A Feast of Remembrance,” Boston Cecilia, led by music director Michael Barrett, offered a program of Bach, Handel, and Purcell Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall that ...

The Sarasa Ensemble curated a program titled “alla Bolognese” Saturday night at Cambridge’s Friends Meeting House, illuminating a fertile musical moment in the 17th-century Italian city. At the time, ...

Over the years, Dante Alighieri’s Commedia has been the impetus for any number of musical works. Yet, aside from Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, few are firmly established in the canon. On the ...

“[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 ...

“A man’s reach,” Robert Browning famously wrote, “should exceed his grasp.” How welcome when a concert program does the same. Take the Boston Cecilia’s “Comfort & Joy.” Comprised of nineteen numbers ...

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 ...

If the two immediate standing ovations on Thursday evening were any indication, sometimes the only response to a performance is “Again!” Such was the case at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s ...

That the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra has made a habit of performing the symphonies of Gustav Mahler shouldn’t blind one to the fact that doing so is completely out of the ordinary: this music ...

Brevity, Shakespeare tells us, is the soul of wit. Yet concision needn’t come at the expense of depth, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s shortish program on Thursday night demonstrated. Led by Sir ...