For better or worse, the classical music industry loves anniversaries. This year offered several but, for the most part, ...

A few days after Boston was designated the “most beautiful winter city in the world,” Mother Nature decided to put that rating to the test. Though Friday’s dusting resulted in far worse traffic than ...

Sometimes, despite its imposing grandeur and marvelous acoustic, Symphony Hall can feel like an extension of one’s living room. On Friday, it radiated homey vibes. Part of this owed to the Boston ...

“A man’s reach,” Robert Browning famously wrote, “should exceed his grasp.” How welcome when a concert program does the same. Take the Boston Cecilia’s “Comfort & Joy.” Comprised of nineteen numbers ...

Character matters—or so we’re often told. It certainly counts in music, and in various ways, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons demonstrated in their traversal of works by Mozart and ...

Boston Camerata proved that medieval music can resonate as much as holiday music of today in a well-attended performance on Friday night in Belmont. Considered almost a perennial in this ensemble’s ...

1. Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Andris Nelsons/Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons’ annual opera-in-concert weekends with the Boston Symphony Orchestra usually showcase the conductor ...