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 ...

The beginning of the end has come for the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra. The Boston Philharmonic announced in March that both the orchestra and the youth ensemble will close after this season.

Regardless, Liu’s take on the Bourrée was marked by exuberant freshness and the Loure sang with an appealing blend of restraint and flexibility. Those last qualities also applied to the lucid ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That seems to be a guiding principle for the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in this, the ensemble’s final season. Not that the group has ever wandered too far from the core of the orchestral repertoire ...

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 ...