For better or worse, the classical music industry loves anniversaries. This year offered several but, for the most part, ...

1. Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Andris Nelsons/Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons’ annual opera-in-concert weekends with the Boston Symphony Orchestra usually showcase the conductor ...

A few days after Boston was designated the “most beautiful winter city in the world,” Mother Nature decided to put that rating to the test. Though Friday’s dusting resulted in far worse traffic than ...

“A man’s reach,” Robert Browning famously wrote, “should exceed his grasp.” How welcome when a concert program does the same. Take the Boston Cecilia’s “Comfort & Joy.” Comprised of nineteen numbers ...