The lyrical Larghetto Cantabile was cello-forward and convincing, if not transcendent. The Minuetto brought the first ...

Anniversaries can be tricky to get right, for institutions as much as individuals. But the final program of Boston Cecilia’s 150 th season hit the mark. Looking simultaneously backwards and forwards, ...

In its season finale Friday night, the Cambridge Society for Early Music presented the young Arrow Quartet in an illuminating performance tracing the development of the string quartet with works by ...

The end of a matter, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, is better than its beginning. Though that reality isn’t borne out in every situation, the sentiment largely applies to Beethoven’s nine ...

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 ...

Typically, out-of-town tryouts start in Boston and end up in New York. But this week the Handel & Haydn Society decided to flip the script. On Thursday, the 211-year-old group made its belated ...

The season finale of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, led by Benjamin Zander with soloist Makoto Ozone, filled Symphony Hall with an ambitious program of American composers Sunday night. 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 ...

The New England Philharmonic closed its 49th season Saturday night at First Church Cambridge, with a program centered on Krzysztof Penderecki’s mighty Credo. The evening began with Cantares by NEP ...

There’s madness in love and, as Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt reminds, there’s madness in death, too. On Thursday night, the Boston Symphony Orchestra brought the composer’s operatic study ...