British conductor Mark Elder has witnessed a shift in the audience over his 25-year association with Manchester’s Halle Orchestra, noting that more and more younger people are becoming increasingly ...

In the Fifth Symphony, it is a simple C major triad. In the Ninth, of course, it is a melody that suits Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.” And in the “Eroica,” it proves to be a melody from his ...

Luisi must have been right on Beethoven’s markings for the Fifth’s first two movements — the first edgy, bristling with ...

The orchestra approaches Mahler’s Seventh Symphony with admirable risk and excitement, if not the polish of performances ...

After more than six years at the helm, Seattle Symphony and Benaroya Hall president and CEO Krishna Thiagarajan is resigning, the Symphony announced Friday. Thiagarajan took the reins in September ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in a program that featured Verdi’s “Four Seasons” and ...

Perhaps all great music counterpoints and comments on the times, but Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra have ...

For the first time ever, the Portland Symphony Orchestra and Opera Maine will join forces on stage. On Friday and Sunday, they will present performances of “La Bohème,” the classic opera by ...

The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jakub Hrůša in Beethoven’s sparkling Piano Concerto No 2 with soloist Jonathan Biss. Plus Shostakovich's Symphony No 11, ‘The Year 1905’.