Leopold Mozart had thoughts about violinists and bowing. In his 1756 treatise on playing the instrument, he ascribed to the ...

Thursday’s concert from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons didn’t quite go to such extremes. But its mashup of ...

Regardless, Liu’s take on the Bourrée was marked by exuberant freshness and the Loure sang with an appealing blend of ...

Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, making its first appearance on a BSO subscription concert since 2016, received a roiling, shapely reading. Here and in that composer’s Symphony No. 5, Nagano mined an ...

The Back Bay Chorale, under music director Stephen Spinelli, began its season at Old South Church Friday night with an homage to the English clergyman Walter Hussey. A patron of the arts, Hussey ...

After intermission, Bach’s Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849, in an arrangement by Nicholas Kitchen, first violinist of the Borromeo Quartet, came as a shock. Clean, precise, and energetic, it sounded ...

That seems to be a guiding principle for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in this, the ensemble’s final season. Not that the group has ever wandered too far from the core of the orchestral repertoire ...

John Milton is having a moment in Boston this fall. Next month, Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, which draws heavily on the poet’s epic, Paradise Lost, makes its way to Symphony Hall. Meanwhile, this ...

“Britten saved my life,” Benjamin Zander casually lets drop. The conductor is not being metaphorical. It seems the great English composer played an inadvertent role in shaping Boston’s recent musical ...

Though his American career is most closely associated with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Sergei Rachmaninoff was no stranger to Boston. Between 1909 and 1937, the Russian-born composer-pianist appeared ...