The Handel and Haydn Society masterfully highlighted the drama and subtle details of Handel’s rarely heard cantatas Delirio ...
Johann Ludwig Bach’s Uns ist ein Kind geboren benefited from a similar attention to detail. Setting the same text from the ...
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 ...
The latter was the feast day of the choir’s namesake, the Roman Catholic patron saint of music. As it happens, she is ...
A sold-out Symphony Hall witnessed a moving performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor (“Resurrection”) by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Benjamin Zander Friday night.
Whoever planned the first month of concerts at Symphony Hall this year deserves a pat on the back: rarely, if ever, do four consecutive weeks of programs, and from different artists, hold together so ...
Familiarity, the saying goes, breeds contempt. But, especially in music, this adage is sometimes turned on its head: after all, the well-known can also beget wonder and revelation. So it did Wednesday ...
“When good Americans die,” Oscar Wilde said, “they go to Paris.” Sometimes, though, Paris comes to America. So it happened that the Orchestre National de France found itself at Mechanics Hall in ...
Jakub Hrůša, whose 2016 debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra was one of that season’s highlights, made a stirring return to Symphony Hall on Thursday night. True, the Czech conductor’s program ...
In the common telling, Erich Wolfgang Korngold was, like Felix Mendelssohn before him, born a genius only to die a talent. The reality, while far more complex, is, ultimately, kinder: Korngold’s ...
Try though they might, not every season opener qualifies as a bona fide “event.” But Music Worcester’s did on Friday night. With the Philip Glass Ensemble on hand to curate a selection of the iconic ...