Zander, who has lived with this symphony for most of his long life, described Friday’s concert (in a pre-concert video) as ...

Nelsons and the BSO were on firmer footing in the Adagio, whose searing denouement sang with righteous fury. Also impressive ...

Take its narrative. Ostensibly, the Eleventh commemorates the “Bloody Sunday” massacre of Russian peasantry by imperial ...

Either way, this thirty-minute-long score doesn’t sound particularly valedictory. Though its middle movements mine some dark territory, the outer pair are wonderfully sunny; the finale digs into the ...

There’s nothing quite as wonderful as when an instrument begins to breathe, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra certainly knows how to make their instruments sing. Sunday afternoon’s program at Second ...

On Thursday night at Symphony Hall, those hands belonged to violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann and conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, who, together, brought the chestnut back into the BSO’s repertoire for ...

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 ...

Spring, the comedian Robin Williams once declared, is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” Mozart’s Haffner Symphony and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 are a couple of musical equivalents to that ...

Perhaps it was inevitable that violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Jan Lisiecki would team up for a duo recital. Both musicians are artists of the first rank and masters of their respective ...