Ólafsson’s playing consistently drew out the richness and variety of the writing, especially in the opening Toccata. Here, ...
Poetry of a more explicit variety came after intermission in the form of Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. Inspired by Byron’s semi-autobiographical 1817 “dramatic poem,” the 1885 score fuses the ...
The Ides of March may have been unlucky for Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. But it was a very good day this year for contemporary music in Boston: prior to the New England Philharmonics ...
Imaginative recital programming seems to come naturally to pianist-composer Conrad Tao. He consistently merges contemporary classical music into his repertoire, and often his own compositions. 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 ...
Sometimes titles are deceiving. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, for instance, only lasts around an hour. But such is the music’s scope and aura that its fifteen movements can resonate in the ...
Imaginative recital programming seems to come naturally to pianist-composer Conrad Tao. He consistently merges contemporary classical music into his repertoire, and often his own compositions. His ...
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 ...
Since its founding in 1881, the Boston Symphony Orchestra has cultivated relationships with some notable composers: Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Thomas Adès ...