Guest conductors and the firebrand soloists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Alisa Weilerstein brought welcome energy to David ...

The dramatic intensity imposed on the Beethoven quartets wasn’t always as convincing. Haydn was still alive, and Mozart had been dead only a few years, when Beethoven penned the early B-flat major ...

Thursday night’s Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert may have had the highest average decibel count of any recent classical performance in the area. Most of that was built into the music, but ...

The European Union Youth Orchestra performs at the Grafenegg Festival in Austria, with conductor Gianandrea Noseda, in a concert also featuring Richard Strauss's Don Quixote. Plus music from other ...

Dmitry Sinkovsky can do things that no other classical musician can. Let me give you an example: On Thursday night at Minneapolis’ Temple Israel, Sinkovsky had just concluded an exuberant and very ...

The main attraction at New York Philharmonic concerts in David Geffen Hall this week is newness. It comes in two parts; a ...

What caused Beethoven’s deafness? It is a query that has invited many diagnoses over the last 200 years.

Either way, this thirty-minute-long score doesn’t sound particularly valedictory. Though its middle movements mine some dark territory, the outer pair are wonderfully sunny; the finale digs into the ...

April 13, 2025, 12:08 AM · It's important to have a place where you can practice - where you can experiment, make mistakes, repeat things a zillion times - and not worry about the neighbors, relatives ...

In Ludwig we don’t dwell on the fact that it’s murder any more than in a game of Cluedo you’d start thinking, ‘But how awful for Doctor Black’s family. He must be so missed.’ ...