Clemens Schuldt kept the volume high in an inconsistent evening in which the BBC Symphony Orchestra ranged across Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet, Mel Bonis’s Ophélie and a suite from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier ...
Two-time GRAMMY Award winner Michelle Cann, lauded champion of Florence Price's music, displays her versatility performing ...
After the general competition Friday, Jacobs students Arthur Wang, Rachel Yi, Hyejin Kim and Jose Hernandez made it to the finals. A jury of faculty members and a guest judge assessed the competitors: ...
Completed in 1919, the Cello Concerto was Edward Elgar's last major work for orchestra, and his most confessional. In spite of fleeting moments of idyllic release, it's dominated by disillusionment, ...
A North Texas guitarist recently set his sights on producing what he believes to be the first complete recording of an ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page Unsuk Chin was inspired by Leonidas Kavakos to return to the genre, and the result comes to Carnegie Hall on Monday. By David Allen ...
If you’ve spent any time around classical music, you might have heard the word ‘concerto’. It is a testimony to the enduring relevance of the concerto that for over four centuries, the genre has ...
On Sunday, Jan. 25, the Sinfonietta Bel Canto will be hosting the Finalists Concert of its annual Concerto Competition for ...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2017 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's monumental concerto met all the composer's impossible demands. A new live recording of the event is both serious and fabulous.
The Concerto for String Orchestra (1948) is commonly regarded as Grażyna Bacewicz's opus magnum and even called her "Ninth Symphony". It is unquestionably one of the foremost works of 20th century ...
Karol Szymanowski's "Violin Concerto" was written in the autumn of 1916 in Zarudzie, Ukraine, on the estate of the composer's friend - Józef Jaroszyński. It is dedicated to Paweł Kochański. On this ...