Character matters—or so we’re often told. It certainly counts in music, and in various ways, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons demonstrated in their traversal of works by Mozart and ...

Zander knows The Planets’ ins and outs well. Having studied with Holst’s daughter, Imogen, and conducted it frequently over the years, that is to be expected. Yet the mix of poignancy and vitality ...

To live, Nietzsche tells us, is to suffer, and few 19 th-century composers captured the essence of that sentiment more memorably than Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Yet the Russian master was much more ...

What’s a production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida without elephants? Cheaper and less complicated to put on than the alternative, for one. It was also the look Boston Lyric Opera went with for their ...

Sunday at First Church in Cambridge, Seraphim accomplished this in a heartfelt program of sacred choral works featuring challenging repertoire spanning more than two centuries. Titled “Eternal Voices ...

The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under founding conductor Benjamin Zander opened their season Sunday at Symphony Hall with an intense program devoted to the relationship between old and new.

In music as in love, passion can be a double-edged sword. Take the Jerusalem Quartet’s performance at Jordan Hall on Friday night. Nobody’s about to argue that the ensemble’s Celebrity ...