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

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 ...

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 ...

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

One of the best aspects of Andris Nelsons’ tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been the conductor’s advocacy for a wide swath of contemporary composers. His predecessor, ...

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 ...

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 name refers to the Dresden court’s 18th-century music cabinet, a repository of manuscript scores and parts that preserved repertory collected around one of Europe’s most cosmopolitan musical ...

The rain cleared Wednesday night just in time for the Boston Landmarks Orchestra to open its free summer season with a “Best of Boston” concert at the Hatch Shell. Music director Christopher Wilkins ...

Abraham Lincoln’s words aren’t often set to music: among other things, his oratory possesses what Robert Frost called the “sound of sense,” which doesn’t require extra-verbal assistance. But that hasn ...

Symphony Hall was ablaze with music, dance, and poetry Friday night as the Back Bay Chorale, in collaboration with the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and the Boston Children’s Choir, performed Carl ...