On Thursday, the orchestra and music director Andris Nelsons celebrated their colleague as part of this month’s “E Pluribus ...

Tchaikovsky’s evergreen hit was the culminating item on the second program of the orchestra’s month-long E Pluribus Unum ...

A smart pairing of Mozart and Haydn with a Telemann rarity by artistic director Jonathan Cohen produced an unusually unified ...

Fitchburg, Massachusetts doesn’t loom large in the annals of music history. But the town in the Commonwealth’s north-central region has at least one claim to fame: it witnessed the first Boston ...

Happiness, George Burns once quipped, is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

The Handel and Haydn Society might be the country’s oldest performing arts institution, but it certainly is projecting—and performing with–the vigor of youth this week. On Monday, the ensemble ...

Who says old dogs can’t learn new tricks? The Boston Symphony Orchestra—now in its 144 th season—trotted out a fresh one with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk on Thursday night: eschewing the usual ...

On the face of it, Franz Josef Haydn and Béla Bartók don’t have much in common. The latter was one of the 20 th century’s most uncompromising Modernists. Haydn, on the other hand, was a model of ...

Just like that, Boston’s heavyweight classical musical ensembles are both back in action: one day after the Boston Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 143 rd season, the Handel & Haydn Society followed ...

In music as in love, passion can be a double-edged sword. Take the Jerusalem Quartet’s performance at Jordan Hall on Friday night. Nobody’s about to argue that the ensemble’s Celebrity ...

There are few great works upon which fame has shone more unwillingly than Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B minor—at least so far as the Boston Symphony Orchestra is concerned. True, this ...

Complete cycles of the Beethoven symphonies aren’t for the faint of heart. Just ask Lorin Maazel, whose 1988 traversal of the set included a respirator in the dressing room—just in case. Then again, ...