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 ...

At her death in 2025, the 93-year-old Tatar-born composer left behind an incomplete Prolog that was co-commissioned by Andris ...

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 ...

Nothing beats a good opening. As it happened, Thursday’s concert from the Boston Symphony Orchestra boasted two of the canon’s best hooks. The first bars of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9—quiet, spare, ...

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 ...

Michael Tilson Thomas died Wednesday at his home in the San Francisco Bay area. Artistic director laureate of the New World Symphony and former music director laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, ...

Sometimes good things come in threes. Other times, they happen in fours. Take the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s concert at Symphony Hall on Thursday night. There were, on the one hand, a trio of debuts: ...

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 ...

Marc Minkowski’s first concert as Boston Baroque’s music director features a performance of something both wonderful and rarely heard: Haydn’s late oratorio masterpiece, The Seasons. Soprano Lauren ...

Whoever planned the first month of concerts at Symphony Hall this year deserves a pat on the back: rarely, if ever, do four consecutive weeks of programs, and from different artists, hold together so ...

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 ...