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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Shostakovich finished his String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, his final work in the genre, a year before his death. Beethoven finished his String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131, about eight months before ...

Thursday’s concert from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons didn’t quite go to such extremes. But its mashup of bleeding chunks of Tchaikovsky framing the local premiere of BSO composer ...

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 ...

Subtlety may deceive you, Oliver Cromwell warned. Integrity never will. The adage would apply, it seems, both to the title character in Rossini’s opera William Tell—he’s a man of action and his ...

It’s not easy coming out of retirement. But when Brahms heard clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld play, he was so inspired that he threw caution to the wind and began composing again. He wrote to Clara ...

Composers don’t usually apologize for the music they write. But Franz Josef Haydn saw fit to put a disclaimer on the end of Part 2 of his oratorio, Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons). “This whole passage ...

The Esplanade was packed for the finale of Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s 25th anniversary. Even the geese showed up on cue, both onstage and off. Christopher Wilkins led the Boston Landmarks Orchestra ...