Shakespeare, for once, had it backwards: better three hours too soon, his Master Ford tells us, than one minute too late. For their first appearance in Boston since October 2001, the adage might be ...

Bartolomeo Montalbano’s Sinfonia Quarta “Geloso” immediately set the tone for the evening. Flexible phrasing and sensitive ...

Schnittke’s String Quartet No. 2, on the other hand, hails from an entirely different world, historically, stylistically, and ...

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 ...

“I do not ask for my music to be interpreted,” Maurice Ravel once offered. “Just that it be played.” If only the French master could have been at Jordan Hall on Friday night when the Danish String ...

While such a complex score requires more than one hearing to grasp its full measure, Salonen seems to have crafted a work that, despite its challenges and headiness, is vivid and—in the best ...

“[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 ...

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 ...

Tianhui Ng’s tenure as the New England Philharmonic’s new music director kicked off in style Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall. Granted, it was just one concert, but on the merits the new era looks a ...

Brevity, Shakespeare tells us, is the soul of wit. Yet concision needn’t come at the expense of depth, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s shortish program on Thursday night demonstrated. Led by Sir ...

Such was the intensity of the cheering that greeted Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Sunday afternoon at Symphony Hall that one could be forgiven for thinking the ensemble ...

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks? The Boston Symphony Orchestra—now in its 144 th season—trotted out a fresh one with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk on Thursday night: eschewing the usual ...