Who never wrote a bad note? If Mozart springs to mind, you’re in good company. Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Andris Nelsons would agree with you. But next to Wolfgang Amadeus, Nelsons would ...

A quick waltz by Shostakovich serves to demonstrate what Bruce Adolphe had in mind with this week's Piano Puzzler. Constantine Orbelian leads the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in a waltz from Unity: Song ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Over two nights at Carnegie Hall, Andris Nelsons and the orchestra reveled in the composer’s sonic riches but played with emotional ...

One of the composer’s most perplexing creations, performed with works by Stravinsky and Vrebalov, is rendered with uncommon depth and power. The Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director Andris ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid the 50th anniversary of ...

Pardon my language but where the heck was everyone? It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich — didn’t mesh with ...