Such was the case on Thursday night when the conductor presided over the American premiere of Francisco Coll’s Piano Concerto with Kirill Gerstein at Symphony Hall. Co-commissioned by the BSO and ...

Musing on decades-old twists of fate isn’t exactly a Zander pastime—his is generally a forward-thinking, in-the-moment type ...

James Demler’s ill-fated Melchtal was sung with warmth and nobility. Similarly, Sergio Martinez and Ilya Silchukou brought ...

The Boston Artists Ensemble opened its 45th season by taking on Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115, amid pouring rain Sunday afternoon at St. Paul’s Church in Brookline. The quintet was ...

“Muß es sein?” Beethoven scrawled at the beginning of the finale of his last string quartet. That conundrum (“Must it be?”) loomed large for Sofia Gubaidulina, whose music often wrestled with big ...

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 ...

“You may ask, ‘Why do we wear the roses?’” said Andris Nelsons in a rare statement from the stage at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening concert. “It’s a sign of love, admiration, respect, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Typically, out-of-town tryouts start in Boston and end up in New York. But this week the Handel & Haydn Society decided to flip the script. On Thursday, the 211-year-old group made its belated ...

But the comedian probably wasn’t taking the Bachs into account: the clan’s decades-long ethic of creative, resourceful, and inventive music-making suggests, if not necessarily domestic comity then a ...

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 ...