Richard Wagner

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

In an encore broadcast, Karina Canellakis returns to the Berkshires to lead the Boston Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s “Symphonic Dances,” and Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Chopin’s dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2.

Ring in the new year with CRB and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with timeless waltzes by Lanner and Strauss and Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll," capped off with Beethoven's eternal Symphony No. 9 — all conducted by Erich Leinsdorf.

Saturday, March 28, 20208:00 PMIn a 2018 performance at Symphony Hall, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an All-Wagner program,…

Sunday at 7pm, with Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde and James Rutherford as Wotan, Andris Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in the second…

Saturday, July 15, 2017Boston Symphony OrchestraAndris Nelsons, conductorThis concert is no longer available on demandFollow the opera with the…

The great symphonist survived on an ascetic diet for much of his life, but his sister's traditional Viennese apricot dumplings were one of his many small indulgences.