If your passing acquaintance with Lutosławski’s output goes no further than the masterly early Concerto for Orchestra, the 1950 Mała Suite shouldn’t present any problems. This brief, four-movement ...

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has announced its 2024-2025 season, including five programs led by Music Director David Bernard. The season includes fully immersive classical music events presented ...

Michael Barenboim’s disc consists solely of pieces by composers whose names begin with B, but it’s effectively an A-Z of solo violin technique, as well as a demonstration of his winning versatility.

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony's live recording cycle of the Mahler symphonies continues this week with the biggest installment of all -- the mammoth Third Symphony, into which ...

I had said these articles would be a deep dive into an upcoming piece on the San Diego classical music calendar. On second thought these are more of a medium dive. A deep dive would include technical ...

The CSO is the only American orchestra in an Amsterdam event that is like the Coachella of the classical world. What is the fuss all about? The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of the world’s great ...

Perhaps it was the topaz sky. Or the pristine waters of the Wörthersee. Or the overall Alpine beauty that surrounds the Austrian hamlet known as Maiernigg. Whatever it was, it served as the backdrop ...

With the exception of a few songs and song cycles, the symphony as a musical form was the be all and end all for Gustav Mahler. He composed no concertos, hardly any chamber music, and though he was an ...

The magnificence of the horns. That was the foremost impression of Thursday night’s performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 at Benaroya Hall by the Seattle Symphony. Close after that came brash, brassy ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by This spring, Gustavo Dudamel, the Philharmonic’s next music director, conducts the big deal symphony; the Met Opera stages Terence Blanchard’s ...