Friday’s interpretation was outstandingly refined and decidedly Classical in approach. Trifonov’s playing across the ...

Continuing their tradition of showcasing world-class soloists alongside talented young symphonic musicians, the Boston ...

What’s the deal with Dmitri Shostakovich and E-flat major? Traditionally, that key is employed to represent grandeur, nobility, heroism—think Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 or Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben.

For many pianists, the musical, intellectual, and physical rigors of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations are such that the music doesn’t require any programmatic assistance. Yunchan Lim, however, isn’t ...

Opening with the gauzy halo of Rachmaninoff’s “Bogoroditse Djevo,” the Back Bay Chorale ushered its near-capacity audience into a hushed reverence which continued mostly unbroken for ninety minutes at ...

“Everyone should remember,” an anonymous text under the 15 th-century Totentanz frieze in Lübeck’s Marienkirche once warned, “that nobody can live forever.” Neither do buildings or artworks: the poem ...

What allows great classical musicians to endure is not merely fidelity to tradition, but their ability to reveal something personal and unique within these historical pieces. Baritone Matthias Goerne ...

Distinguishing oneself in the long lineage of classical music is no small feat, and one could argue that Johannes Brahms’s deepest internal turmoil was from this very challenge. On Sunday afternoon in ...