Franz Liszt

Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in a dazzling program of music by Liszt, Wagner, and Anna Clyne, culminating in Scriabin's depiction of human consciousness, "Prometheus, Poem of Fire," with pianist Yefim Bronfman.

Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in György Ligeti's kaleidoscopic Piano Concerto in a celebration of the Hungarian composer's centennial, and Thomas Adès leads the BSO in Stravinsky’s "Orpheus," Franz Liszt’s "Les Préludes," and Adès's own "Tevot."

The song got it right: “The hills ARE alive with the sound of music!”

From "tree canopy" to "forest bathing," 'tis the season for tree news, but classical has always gone out on a limb for trees!

Walter Scott wrote, "To all, to each, a fair good night, and pleasing dreams and slumbers light," sentiments captured in music by many composers.

Kicking off the 2022 Tanglewood season, pianist Yuja Wang joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, and Andris Nelsons conducts Stravinsky’s timeless “The Rite of Spring."

French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in Liszt's acrobatic Piano Concerto No. 2, plus Andris Nelsons conducts an American premiere by Augusta Read Thomas and Beethoven's Symphony No. 4.

March 29th is the 88th day of the year, so, fittingly, it’s World Piano Day!

Like father, like son? A Daddy’s Girl? We’re celebrating Father’s Day with the Bachs, the Mozarts, the Liszts, and the Wiecks.

Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor talks about his personal and passionate testament to the visionary spirit of Franz Liszt, prepared and recorded in the dark…