Nothing was rushed. If anything, the conductor enjoyed lingering over the little details, like the quiet bridge into the ...

The night’s post-intermission sampling of Ravel and Stravinsky delivered their own fireworks, though of a somewhat more ...

One of Handel’s strengths lies in his rich experiences encompassing Europe, from his German heritage to his travels in Italy and eventual naturalization as a British citizen. In an expressively titled ...

“Age is an issue of mind over matter,” Mark Twain reportedly said. “If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Whether or not Herbert Blomstedt shares Twain’s philosophy, the 97-year-old maestro’s stage ...

The end of a matter, the writer of Ecclesiastes tells us, is better than its beginning. Though that reality isn’t borne out in every situation, the sentiment largely applies to Beethoven’s nine ...

In Gaspard de la nuit, Cho ably teased out the contrasts between the accompanimental glitter in “Ondine” and its shapely melodic phrases. So, too, the eerie plays of light and shade in “Le Gibet.” His ...

Musical expression requires the space between notes and phrases to tell a cohesive story and move the music forward. In their successful Celebrity Series recital on Saturday, mezzo-soprano Jamie ...

There’s madness in love and, as Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt reminds, there’s madness in death, too. On Thursday night, the Boston Symphony Orchestra brought the composer’s operatic study ...

The Celebrity Series of Boston presented pianist Yulianna Avdeeva Wednesday evening at Longy School of Music’s Pickman Hall. In her Celebrity Series debut, Avdeeva explored the virtuosity and ...