In fact, two of the works on the program were conventional, as they were both by Beethoven: the Overture to his ballet, “The ...

Not every night does the music of Beethoven conjure the words and sentiments of Mahatma Gandhi, E. M. Forster, and Louis ...

I am a modern violinist steeped in the world of modern string playing - so when the opportunity came up in 2024 to do a period recording of the two Mozart violin and viola duets, I was excited. And ...

I’ve written about the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony before. It’s one of the masterworks of the classical repertoire, alongside ...

The composer’s exhilarating Sinfonia antartica was met with a mixed response on premiere – and still sits oddly in his oeuvre ...

While America was struggling to define its independence in the late 1700s, the upper echelons of European society were ...