Brace yourself for the sound of classical music lovers grinding their teeth. The revered German classical recording company DG, which was once home to luminaries such as Herbert von Karajan, the ...

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Michael Abels writes scores for Jordan Peele. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the opera “Omar.” Now, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center shows off ...

In the 1982 movie “Fitzcarraldo,” a white-suited Klaus Kinski, playing a 19th century rubber baron, steams down a Peruvian river, blasting Caruso on his gramophone toward the damp, dark rain forest ...

The word Études conjures negative associations for musicians. They’re studies. Which suggests endless practice. As New York-based Jeremy Denk says in his notes, they’re pieces which can crush a ...

Even if you are a hardcore classical music junkie, you've probably never been to a solo mandolin recital. Let's face it, mandolins are the black sheep of musical instruments, either confined to ...

Think of musical perfection and you think of JS Bach. Every note perfectly placed, every harmonic sequence pleasing in its logic, every extended structure immaculately organised. Crucially, Bach's ...

Vivaldi wrote hundreds of concertos, nearly all of them for relatively conventional instruments. But his eight works for the viola d’amore — the plangent, full-bodied stringed instrument that is ...

They say that Nigel Kennedy divides opinion, but he hasn’t lost his ability to pull a crowd. For his late-night performance of solo Bach at the Proms in early August, throngs of customers were still ...

Edette Gagné joined the Vivaldi Chamber Choir at the beginning of the current season as artistic director and conductor.Supplied Vivaldi Chamber Choir: Classical Cabaret, Saturday, June 4 at 8 p.m. at ...