The exuberant French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm began a three-year L.A. Phil collaboration with sheer joy — and also some ...

A sonata was built around a theme developed by an instrumentalist. A concerto addressed multiple themes … shared among cohorts of musicians.” Handel absorbed all this and then departed for ...

Handel’s early masterpiece comes across as timely as it is titillating. Exactly 240 years later, another radical 22-year-old, Pierre Boulez, began his Second Piano Sonata. This wild and ...