Johannes Brahms’ Schicksalslied gave the chorus the opportunity to show its excellent tone, phrasing and projection. In the second section, where Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry takes a dramatic ...

This weekend, he leads the orchestra — without a baton — in Schubert’s Symphony No. 6 and Brahms’s Symphony No. 1. Baton aside, BSO principal oboist John Ferrillo said he hasn’t observed ...

That much was clear from the downbeat of Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1, a score that, curiously, Blomstedt led the orchestra in just six years ago. Like the prior time, there was an engaging ...