It was clear that the crowd loved the concert presented this evening by the BSO, Nelsons, and Emanuel Ax. The BSO members wore red rose boutonnieres as a gesture of solidarity with Nelsons in the wake of his dismissal.

I don’t recall a more vital quartet recital, nor a more ecstatic audience response than this today for this Capital Region Classical concert at Union College

From France we hear courtly pomp, graceful ornamentation, rhythmic fluidity, and dramatic juxtaposing sentiments.

The recital today offered two works best known for meltingly beautiful cantabile movements: Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” and the third-movement love song in Schumann’s Fantasie.

The two-note articulations in the melismata (“eleison”) compellingly evoke the Baroque rhetorical “sigh.”

Indeed, the C major section, marked by Ms. Belcea’s succulent phrasing and bowing, sweeps the tears away

Andris Nelsons, undeterred by the noisy ambiance, performed the last measures with an almost frenetic energy

The riveting and tenacious first movement with the all-important four-note motto is followed by a gracious set of variations punctuated by a pompous march theme.

Music, Richard Strauss Libretto based on Salome by Oscar Wilde, German translation by Hedwig Lachmann Conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin...

Alarms and noises from the corpus politicum have a hidden benefit of bringing out groups like Four Nations to more accessible venues.

Die Frau ohne Schatten was Strauss’ problem child, and he begged Hofmannsthal to abandon the grandiose symbolic romantic style in the future

From New York to Berlin, a swell of tribute to America's greatest twentieth-century composer, Charles Ives