The two works on Thursday’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert could hardly have been more different. First up was the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, music of pastels and scented lace, with ...

Dmitri Shostakovich began work on his Symphony No. 10 just a few weeks after the death of Joseph Stalin. The dictator had at various times denounced and banned Shostakovich’s music, but the composer ...

After a Chicago Symphony rehearsal on Wednesday, a violinist strode towards me and two CSO representatives as we chatted in the aisle. She had something to say to the press, she declared. She had been ...

One of the top-10 releases from 2015, Andris Nelsons with the Boston Symphony Orchestra plays Shostakovich's 10th Symphony. Gramophone Magazine named this recent DG release one of the top-10 best of ...

A new era for the Elgin Symphony Orchestra begins this weekend when Andrew Grams opens the ESO's 64th season in his debut concerts as music director. Grams, a native of Maryland who currently resides ...

Vasily Petrenko, who led memorable concerts with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2009 and 2011, is back this weekend, as impressive as ever. Since his last visit, he was quoted making dismissive ...

Pessimists say he stretches himself too thin. Optimists say he’s proof of Boston’s international status. Whatever you think of music director Andris Nelsons, and his multiple affiliations and projects ...

Riccardo Muti launched his 10th season as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Thursday evening with a program rich in contemplation and brightened with brilliant orchestral color. Just ...