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 ...

The Celebrity Series of Boston presents the Viano Quartet performing works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Webern, and Shostakovich 3 p.m. November 2 at Groton Hill Music’s Meadow Hall. celebrityseries.org ...

That’s not to say that he was ever thrown by the Variations’ demands. The 2022 Van Cliburn Competition Gold Medalist is an electrifying pianist for whom vertiginous hand crossings and dense ...

Pianist Alessandro Deljavan, a frequent BPO collaborator, brought both technical command and intense introspection to the ...

Opening with the gauzy halo of Rachmaninoff’s “Bogoroditse Djevo,” the Back Bay Chorale ushered its near-capacity audience ...

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 ...

Some composers—like John Adams, the author of The Dharma at Big Sur, Gnarly Buttons, and Slonimsky’s Earbox—can’t resist a catchy title. Edgar Meyer, on the other hand, seems to prefer keeping things ...

Nothing lasts forever, as Taylor Swift reminds us, be they relationships, careers, or music festivals. So it happened that the clock ran out Saturday on both the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Decoding ...

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 ...

A sold-out Symphony Hall witnessed a moving performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”) by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Benjamin Zander Friday night.

There’s nothing like an anniversary to encourage an orchestra’s programming. Take Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Intent on marking the occasion of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death fifty ...

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 ...