Rather, it was the fact that this is music that takes the long view and does so with a mix of unobtrusive charm and ...

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

“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 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 melodic phrases. So, too, the eerie plays of light and shade in “Le Gibet.” His ...

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 ...

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 ...