On Tuesday, Kissin imbued this section’s desolate turns of melody and harmony with soulful, almost bluesy, intensity. The ...

The James Burton-prepared TFC sang with tonal warmth and good diction. They brought vigor to bear on their various “laudate” ...

Beware of ideas, Joseph Stalin once warned: they are more powerful than guns. “We would not let our enemies have guns,” he went on. “Why should we let them have ideas?” That statement might make a ...

Zander, who has lived with this symphony for most of his long life, described Friday’s concert (in a pre-concert video) as ...

Nelsons and the BSO were on firmer footing in the Adagio, whose searing denouement sang with righteous fury. Also impressive ...

Either way, this thirty-minute-long score doesn’t sound particularly valedictory. Though its middle movements mine some dark territory, the outer pair are wonderfully sunny; the finale digs into the ...

There’s nothing like an anniversary to encourage an orchestra’s programming. Take Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Intent on marking the occasion of Dmitri Shostakovich’s death fifty ...

There’s nothing quite as wonderful as when an instrument begins to breathe, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra certainly knows how to make their instruments sing. Sunday afternoon’s program at Second ...