Classical Music
The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal programs a lot of new music but that is not the point.
Christopher Rouse is a tough composer to pin down and that stylistic unpredictability has, in part, provided his music notable expressive breadth.
Felix Mendelssohn remains one of the West’s most underrated composers.
Those assembled at Boston’s Jordan Hall were thoroughly prepared to be enraptured.
Hardly any of the under-60s generation can tell you who Serge Koussevitzky was or what his legacy consists of.
Elgar’s brilliant scoring in his Symphony no. 1 was front and center, in this performance not an end in itself but serving clearly expressive goals.
Nobody, these days, plays the music of the Strauss family better than the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
The BSO’s Shakespeare festival has proven to be the most satisfying extended endeavor yet of Andris Nelsons’ directorship.
The English horn, of course, is no stranger to haunting melodies.
Rethinking the Repertoire #8 – Sibelius’s “Night Ride and Sunrise”
Surely the time has come for a major revival of Night Ride and Sunrise.
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