The evening’s best ensemble playing came at the close, when Telemann’s “Les Turcs” and “Les Moscovites” snapped into a more ...

As performed by Boston Baroque Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall, this final large-scale undertaking from the Classical-era giant emerged as a masterpiece of freshness and invention. Accordingly, it ...

Andris Nelsons conducts the BSO in Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 with Emanuel Ax 1:30 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m. Saturday at Symphony Hall. bso.org ...

Composers don’t usually apologize for the music they write. But Franz Josef Haydn saw fit to put a disclaimer on the end of Part 2 of his oratorio, Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons). “This whole passage ...

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 ...

What’s in a name? Up until now, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Music of the Midnight Sun” festival limited itself, expectedly, to music from Scandinavia. But on Sunday, the Boston Symphony Chamber ...

The Esplanade was packed for the finale of Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s 25th anniversary. Even the geese showed up on cue, both onstage and off. Christopher Wilkins led the Boston Landmarks Orchestra ...

On paper, the lineup for pianists Víkingur Ólafsson and Yuja Wang’s duo recital on Friday at Symphony Hall didn’t make much sense. John Cage and Conlon Nancarrow, for instance, don’t normally share ...

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 ...

“[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 ...

Happiness, George Burns once quipped, is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Samuel Barber’s Vanessa showcases an alternative: the opera, with its libretto by Gian Carlo ...

“I am in hell!” The words belong to Fletcher Christian, but they apply equally well to the characters in Matthew Aucoin’s opera Eurydice, which received its local premiere Friday night at The ...