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2025 Chopin Competition laureate and Massachusetts native Eric Lu makes his debut at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in the Berkshires. 

Seong-Jin Cho, Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony bring refinement, dramatic cohesion and a touch of ballet to an all-Tchaikovsky gala.

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the Boston Symphony presents a program dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, including the belated world premiere of Philip Glass’ Symphony no. 15. 

The season-ending performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony loses its intended conductor but remains enjoyable, if somewhat under-rehearsed. 

The guest conductor pairs Holst's perennial crowd pleaser with Poulenc's Gloria, a work deeply associated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Two Camille’s anchor the first half of Samy Rachid’s Tanglewood program: Saint-Saëns and Pépin. 

With Andris Nelsons heading off to European festival commitments, the Boston Symphony continues its Tanglewood season with a series of guest conductors. 

John Williams' new concerto evokes the spirit of jazz virtuosos, paying tribute to Art Tatum, Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson. 

Andris Nelsons shapes a Tanglewood evening of introspective reflections featuring music from Bach to Mahler.

Yuja Wang’s verve and panache, combined with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra’s fearless, youthful energy, forge an incandescent, explosive performance.

Textures, tensions and transformations across musical perspectives imbue the Tanglewood programme Thomas Adès inherited from Esa-Pekka Salonen. 

From Rachmaninov's Third Concerto to the Symphonic Dances, a programme of emotional depth and orchestral virtuosity to open this year's Tanglewood Festival. 

Karina Canellakis conducts a Franco-Prussian program featuring Beethoven and Brahms in the first half, Chausson and Ravel in the second. 

In his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Gaffigan threads the needle between innocence and irony in Mahler's great work, ably supported by soprano Elena Villalón.

At Tanglewood, Dalia Stasevska pairs Sibelius and Stravinsky via a rarely heard orchestration of the former by the latter. 

Blurring boundaries: Romanticism and Modernism in Kirill Gerstein and Alan Gilbert’s Boston Symphony performances at Tanglewood. 

The closing concert for the triple anniversary of Serge Koussevitzky and the BSO takes a fittingly ritualistic turn.

Andris Nelsons and Emanuel Ax find inspiration working with their young colleagues on an idyllic Sunday in the Berkshires. 

A star-is-born performance from the young American bass David Leigh anchors a thrilling performance of the Ring cycle's dramatic conclusion.

A new leader takes over that BSO's concertmaster chair that Malcolm Lowe occupied with distinction for more than three decades

Renée Fleming makes a worthy return to the Marschallin, but this all-Strauss program, led by Andris Nelsons, is more notable for its deficits.

The summer festival closes with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra playing Tippett and Beethoven. 

The Boston Symphony Orchestra meet the virtuosic demands of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra with impressive ease; Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 9 is played with skill and accuracy by Seong-Jin Cho.

With the audience increasingly familiar with John Williams' Second Violin Concerto, its architecture and emotion become much clearer than at its 2021 premiere.

In her final appearance as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Assistant Conductor, Anna Ratikina leads a fine programme of Prokofiev, Paganini and Ellen Reid.

Andris Nelsons highlights the spirited wit of Orff's orchestration, but inconsistent singing from soloists and chorus leaves something to be desired.

A memorable night at the opera as Andris Nelsons conducts Così fan tutte at the Tanglewood Festival. 

The audience turns out in droves to see one of the greatest pianists of his generation.

Yo-Yo Ma again displayed his wonderful expressiveness, his unsurpassed talent to project over his accompaniment.

Kirill Gerstein’s interpretation of Brahms' Second Piano Concerto appeared as a true homage to the great Romanian pianist Radu Lupu.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra offered a reading of Beethoven's “Pastoral” Symphony that ideally suited the bucolic surroundings.

Andris Nelsons finishes his 2019 Tanglewood residency on a high note.

Emanuel Ax’s extraordinary gift for musical collaborations was especially evident in Mozart's E flat major concerto. 

Playing Mahler’s Third Symphony was also meant to be an homage to Leonard Bernstein, one of the great interpreters of Mahler’s music, born 100 years ago this week.

Nelsons proved again that he has a special affinity for the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and for the Fourth Symphony in particular.

Teztlaff’s ability to bring freshness and an enchanted inner life to even the most trodden of musical works is unsurpassed.

Under Andris Nelsons' baton, the musical canvas was remarkably supple with proper light shed on Puccini’s melodic inventiveness and wondrous orchestration.