Celebrating its 150th season in “A Feast of Remembrance,” Boston Cecilia, led by music director Michael Barrett, offered a program of Bach, Handel, and Purcell Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall that ...

While such a complex score requires more than one hearing to grasp its full measure, Salonen seems to have crafted a work ...

Completed in 1896, the sprawling, six-movement score is the composer’s longest and perhaps most audacious musical undertaking, with a Dante-esque program that traces a course from the depths of the ...

Already established as a fine interpreter of Classical and Romantic repertoire with his Sony recordings, pianist Mao Fujita made his Boston recital debut with Vivo Performing Arts to a packed house in ...

Artistic inspiration can come from the most unexpected places.

1. Music by Korngold, Mozart and Andrew Norman. Kirill Petrenko/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra The Berlin Philharmonic’s visits to Boston haven’t once, in this century at least, disappointed.

“I hate quotation,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote. “Tell me what you know.” Well, there’s no question that Carlos Simon knows the charismatic black church. The son of a preacher, the Boston Symphony ...

Move over Johann Strauss: nothing says “Happy New Year” like Mozart. That was the case for the Boston Artists Ensemble on Sunday afternoon, when a capacity crowd gathered at Brookline’s St. Paul’s ...

Over the years, Dante Alighieri’s Commedia has been the impetus for any number of musical works. Yet, aside from Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, few are firmly established in the canon. On the ...

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 ...

On the face of it, Franz Josef Haydn and Béla Bartók don’t have much in common. The latter was one of the 20 th century’s most uncompromising Modernists. Haydn, on the other hand, was a model of ...

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 ...