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

The dedication of soloist Joélle Harvey and H&H was evident in showcasing the innate charm of Handel’s works, his tunefulness ...

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

In Gaspard de la nuit, Cho ably teased out the contrasts between the accompanimental glitter in “Ondine” and its shapely ...

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 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 ...

As far as Beethoven was concerned, his Sixth Symphony is self-explanatory. “Anyone who has the faintest idea of rural life,” the composer offered, “will have no need of descriptive titles”—though, ...

Not every night does the music of Beethoven conjure the words and sentiments of Mahatma Gandhi, E. M. Forster, and Louis Spohr. Then again, not every evening at Symphony Hall proves so stimulating as ...