Classical Music
The trio’s musical offerings were substantial and not the easiest things for an occasional group to pull together.
Two recent albums feature compositions by James MacMillan, one of Europe’s leading composers, as well as an opportunity to hear him conducting.
This recording is the first of a partial Shostakovich cycle Andris Nelsons and the BSO are embarking upon.
The BSO’s Americana concert could only provide four beautiful snapshots of a very complicated landscape.
The great mistake we make as listeners or viewers is passivity. Music deserves and needs our active involvement.
Gunther Schuller dove into jazz with passionate hunger, in the process dispelling cultural, class, and racial prejudices.
Classical Music Feature: Fifty Years Later, Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar Remains the Gold Standard
There is something undeniably affecting about Elgar’s composition and cellist Jacqueline du Pré realizes it all with an unbridled depth of feeling.
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