Nothing lasts forever, as Taylor Swift reminds us, be they relationships, careers, or music festivals. So it happened that ...

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 ...

Composers can’t always be trusted to objectively assess their own works. However, William Walton’s appraisal of his Cello Concerto holds up: “It is to my mind the best of my three concertos,” he wrote ...

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 ...

There’s nothing quite as wonderful as when an instrument begins to breathe, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra certainly knows how to make their instruments sing. Sunday afternoon’s program at Second ...

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.