Continuing their tradition of showcasing world-class soloists alongside talented young symphonic musicians, the Boston ...

Friday’s interpretation was outstandingly refined and decidedly Classical in approach. Trifonov’s playing across the ...

Or so it sounded on Sunday afternoon, when the Viano Quartet assayed the score as part of their Celebrity Series debut at Groton Hill Music’s Meadow Hall. Winners of this year’s prestigious Avery ...

The night’s big item was the latter’s Requiem, heard in its 1948 version for organ, choir, and soloists. Originally commissioned as an orchestral tone poem by the Vichy regime, Duruflé’s score ...

Continuing their tradition of showcasing world-class soloists alongside talented young symphonic musicians, the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra treated their audience to a program of roiling and ...

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks? The Boston Symphony Orchestra—now in its 144 th season—trotted out a fresh one with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk on Thursday night: eschewing the usual ...

To live, Nietzsche tells us, is to suffer, and few 19 th-century composers captured the essence of that sentiment more memorably than Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Yet the Russian master was much more ...

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 ...

Tianhui Ng’s tenure as the New England Philharmonic’s new music director kicked off in style Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall. Granted, it was just one concert, but on the merits the new era looks a ...

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 ...

Genius, Edison told us, is mostly the result of hard work. Too much of it, though, can lead to deleterious ends: as Jan Swafford’s recent biography convincingly argues, overwork played an outsized ...