But this week the Handel & Haydn Society decided to flip the script. On Thursday, the 211-year-old group made its belated Carnegie Hall debut. The next night, they brought their program of cantatas by ...

Predictably, its most familiar items came from the pen of Johann Sebastian Bach: the Sinfonia from the Cantata BWV 156 (“Ich ...

Under Spinelli’s attentive and stoic direction, the singers of the Back Bay Chorale delivered harmonious synchronization, ...

Copland’s symphony is extremely challenging, demanding sustained focus and tight coordination to capture the rhythmic ...

An expansive and impassioned survey of violin sonatas highlighted the concert by Lisa Batiashvili and Giorgi Gigashvili ...

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 ...

Officially, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “E Pluribus Unum” festival ended at the beginning of February. But the grassroots demonstrations that have sprung up in support of music director Andris ...

Over the years, Dante Alighieri’s Commedia has been the impetus for any number of musical works. Yet, aside from Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, few are firmly established in the canon. On the ...

Evgeny Kissin and Andrey Boreyko restored a seldom-heard Scriabin concerto to the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s repertoire Thursday night at Symphony Hall, anchoring a Russian-leaning program of ...

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, ...

“The aspect of things that are most important for us,” Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote, “are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.” The great philosopher wasn’t speaking of orchestral ...