Predictably, its most familiar items came from the pen of Johann Sebastian Bach: the Sinfonia from the Cantata BWV 156 (“Ich ...

Copland’s symphony is extremely challenging, demanding sustained focus and tight coordination to capture the rhythmic ...

An expansive and impassioned survey of violin sonatas highlighted the concert by Lisa Batiashvili and Giorgi Gigashvili ...

Under Spinelli’s attentive and stoic direction, the singers of the Back Bay Chorale delivered harmonious synchronization, ...

Nothing beats a good opening. As it happened, Thursday’s concert from the Boston Symphony Orchestra boasted two of the ...

But the comedian probably wasn’t taking the Bachs into account: the clan’s decades-long ethic of creative, resourceful, and inventive music-making suggests, if not necessarily domestic comity then a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since its founding in 1881, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has cultivated relationships with some notable composers: Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Thomas Adès ...

Officially, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “E Pluribus Unum” festival ended at the beginning of February. But the grassroots demonstrations that have sprung up in support of music director Andris ...

The Handel and Haydn Society might be the country’s oldest performing arts institution, but it certainly is projecting—and performing with–the vigor of youth this week. On Monday, the ensemble ...