There’s madness in love and, as Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt reminds, there’s madness in death, too.On Thursday night, the Boston Symphony Orchestra brought the composer’s operatic study of love, loss, and acceptance to town for just its second local presentation (Odyssey Opera gave the work its stirring regional premiere in 2014).

4 days ago · There’s madness in love and, as Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt reminds, there’s madness in death, too.On Thursday night, the Boston Symphony Orchestra brought the composer’s operatic study of love, loss, and acceptance to town for just its second local presentation (Odyssey Opera gave the work its stirring regional premiere in 2014).

Jan 19, 2025 · As far as Beethoven was concerned, his Sixth Symphony is self-explanatory. “Anyone who has the faintest idea of rural life,” the composer offered, “will have no need of descriptive titles”—though, presumably just to be safe, he then provided subheadings for each movement and gave the larger work its “Pastoral” moniker. To judge from Saturday night’s performance at Symphony Hall ...

Jan 24, 2025 · 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 symphonies, which Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra have been busy assaying these last two weeks.

Jan 10, 2025 · Complete cycles of the Beethoven symphonies aren’t for the faint of heart. Just ask Lorin Maazel, whose 1988 traversal of the set included a respirator in the dressing room—just in case. Then again, Maazel was leading all nine works in a single day. Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony ...

Jan 17, 2025 · Not every night does the music of Beethoven conjure the words and sentiments of Mahatma Gandhi, E. M. Forster, and Louis Spohr. Then again, not every evening at Symphony Hall proves so stimulating as Thursday’s traversal of that composer’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies from Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Jan 1, 2025 · Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, conductor Christine Goerke, soprano Brandon Jovanovich, tenor Tanglewood Festival Chorus Boston Lyric Opera Chorus

Dec 21, 2024 · 2. Víkingur Ólafsson playing Bach The Goldberg Variations stand as one of the canon’s three or four most imposing monuments. Yet there was nothing forbidding about the Icelandic pianist’s traversal of the set at Jordan Hall in February. Rather, Ólafsson’s reading blended absorbing sweep and organic logic, with every phrase and embellishment emerging with inviting freshness and a true ...

Jan 12, 2024 · Nothing draws a crowd like The Rite of Spring.Or, apparently, Seong-Jin Cho. Together, the combination of Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 homage to pagan Russia and the superstar Korean pianist playing Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand resulted in a full house for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s first concert of the new year Thursday night..

Apr 4, 2024 · The Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates Andris Nelsons’ first decade as music director while also highlighting new and recent initiatives in its 2024-25 season, which was announced Thursday.