Ólafsson’s playing consistently drew out the richness and variety of the writing, especially in the opening Toccata. Here, ...
A house divided against itself cannot stand—but it can try to present a united front, at least for one night. So it happened that, less than two weeks after the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s board of ...
The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra will shut down permanently after the 2026-2027 season after 48 years of bringing classical music to area concertgoers. Managing director Sean Lewis announced Tuesday ...
The Ides of March may have been unlucky for Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. But it was a very good day this year for contemporary music in Boston: prior to the New England Philharmonic’s concert at Tsai ...
Imaginative recital programming seems to come naturally to pianist-composer Conrad Tao. He consistently merges contemporary ...
Sometimes titles are deceiving. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, for instance, only lasts around an hour. But such is ...
Imaginative recital programming seems to come naturally to pianist-composer Conrad Tao. He consistently merges contemporary classical music into his repertoire, and often his own compositions. His ...
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 ...