On Thursday, the Concerto returned to Symphony Hall, where Piatigorsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra gave its premiere in ...

The James Burton-prepared TFC sang with tonal warmth and good diction. They brought vigor to bear on their various “laudate” ...

On Tuesday, Kissin imbued this section’s desolate turns of melody and harmony with soulful, almost bluesy, intensity. The ...

Zander, who has lived with this symphony for most of his long life, described Friday’s concert (in a pre-concert video) as ...

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 ...

Nelsons and the BSO were on firmer footing in the Adagio, whose searing denouement sang with righteous fury. Also impressive ...

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 ...

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 ...