My opinion may be little better than the layman's, but I believe it is incorrect to consider Beethoven's cycle of nine symphonies the 'bedrock of western music." It is not. The bedrock of western ...

Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt leads this program featuring Nielsen's Fourth Symphony, a work that depicts the tenacity of life even in the most difficult of circumstances. Written during the ...

Over the past two weeks, Boston audiences have been treated to period-instrument performances of Beethoven’s Second and Fourth Piano Concertos and his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. On Thursday, guest ...

On Thursday night, social media was aflutter over a picture of a dress that appeared to some people to be blue and black, and to others to be white and gold. Which color it was turned out to be a ...

It's safe to say the Cleveland Orchestra gives its all to every performance. Sometimes, though, it gives a little more. Or so it seemed Thursday night at Severance Hall. Reunited with conductor ...

On paper at least, conductor Herbert Blomstedt’s guest appearance this week with the San Francisco Symphony would seem to promise pretty run-of-the-mill fare. Between Mozart’s G-Minor Symphony and the ...

The ninety-four-year-old Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt has achieved a longevity that is almost unprecedented in his profession. Various conductors have remained active past the age of ...

Herbert Blomstedt manages to be, at once, one of the best conductors in the world and one of the music world’s best-kept secrets. Sure, he’s headed some of the world’s leading orchestras (the ...

You don't need to read the program booklet to see that Herbert Blomstedt is a maestro, or that he enjoys a special relationship with the Cleveland Orchestra. No, all you need to do is listen. Pay even ...