Richard Strauss

Andris Nelsons begins his 10th season as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director with works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and Arturs Maskats, as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder.

Not all heroes wear capes and fly through the air. Some swoop into our lives on classical music! Hear some of them for National Heroes Day on Oct. 8.

Andris Nelsons leads the BSO at Tanglewood in a program of Stravinsky's "Petruska," Julia Adolphe's "Makeshift Castle," and superstar Renée Fleming is the soloist in Strauss songs with orchestra.

Superstar violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Andris Nelsons and the BSO in John Williams's Violin Concerto No. 2, with works by Strauss and Ravel also on the program.

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

In the midst of the Oscar awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, classical music has always been a star performer.

When you hear the word "knight," does your imagination take you to the Middle Ages, a time of chivalry, jousts and quests? Then read on!

In an encore broadcast of the final concert in the 2021-2022 Boston Symphony Orchestra season, BSO Principal Cellist Blaise Déjardin is center-stage in Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto No. 1, and Andris Nelsons conducts Richard Strauss's panoramic "An Alpine Symphony" and a selection from the composer's "Intermezzo."

The twin sisters take center stage in Mozart’s elegant Concerto for Two Pianos, and Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Richard Strauss’s "Death and Transfiguration."

Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in three works by German composer Richard Strauss, culminating with the nostalgically rich "Symphonia domestica."