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

For all its passing British sea shanties and folksongs, Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony does Walt Whitman’s determinedly ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra dig country living. Though they might have underlined one or two of the Sixth’s inspirations a bit more insistently—the rustic scherzo was a touch ...

The San Francisco Symphony gave the world premiere of John Adams’ third piano concerto “After the Fall” at Davies Symphony Hall under the baton of guest conductor David Robertson. Conductor David ...

Then again, not every evening at Symphony Hall proves so stimulating as Thursday ... Meanwhile, both the first movement’s development and the scherzo’s Trio provided subtle foreshadowings of Beethoven ...

Tchaikovsky is in more sober mood; but the third movement of his Symphony No 4 fairly fizzes with the popping corks of plucked strings, and fate ultimately meets its scurrying match.