Presented by Vivo Performing Arts Sunday afternoon, Levit brought an all-Beethoven program ahead of the 200th anniversary of ...

Leoš Janáček’s String Quartet No. 1 would seem to subscribe to that sentiment. Written in 1923, its four movements offer an ...

Blomstedt, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, led more than 40 BSO performances. The moving dedication seemed to set the ...

Conductor and pianist became one as the renowned Igor Levit made his solo recital debut at Symphony Hall before a restless Boston audience. Presented by Vivo Performing Arts Sunday afternoon, Levit ...

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 ...

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra will shut down permanently after the 2026-2027 season after 48 years of bringing classical music to area concertgoers. Managing director Sean Lewis announced Tuesday ...

Leopold Mozart had thoughts about violinists and bowing. In his 1756 treatise on playing the instrument, he ascribed to the latter technique nothing less than the responsibility for “rous[ing] in ...

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 ...

Christmas came to Jordan Hall Thursday night, courtesy of the Handel and Haydn Society’s Yuletide program. Though just two of the concert’s six offerings were explicitly seasonal, the larger spirit of ...

Andris Nelsons’ annual opera-in-concert weekends with the Boston Symphony Orchestra usually showcase the conductor at his best. This year’s surely did, with the culminating installment of the ...

Shostakovich finished his String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, his final work in the genre, a year before his death. Beethoven finished his String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131, about eight months before ...