Dennis Russell Davies and his musicians from the Czech Republic’s second city began a UK tour last night with an enterprising ...

A solo violin recital is at once the most intimate and the most heroic form of performance. Pitilessly exposed and unsupported (or unburdened) by an accompanist who might share the spotlight and ...

The language that Bach was using… had a lot to do with the bebop language. Jazz is something impossible to describe, but very easy to recognize… You must listen to both, and for some reason, you ...

Terry Waite and musician Steve Hackett talk about the emotional impact of Bach's music for two violins. From July 2004. Show more So little is known about the life of JS Bach, yet his music opens up a ...

Bach’s Mass in B Minor begins with a majestic howl of pain—four adagio bars that combine formal grandeur with writhing interior lines, as if figures in a cathedral frieze of the Last Judgment were ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first publisher of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Hans Georg Nägeli, called it the “greatest musical work of art ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA — The Smith College Department of Music presents the 2025 Orchestra Spring Concert conducted by Jonathan Hirsh, Saturday, April 19 at 3 p.m. in Sweeney Concert Hall. The Orchestra ...

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles have chosen a young Russian contralto to perform at a church blessing, after their civil wedding. Ekaterina Semenchuk, 29, has been flown over specially from ...

Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of the Allegro from Bach’s Concerto No.3 in D Major by Beatrice Rana. The video features the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and the recording can be found on Rana’s ...

Usually seated behind the strings among the other woodwinds in The Syracuse Orchestra, principal oboe Eduardo Sepúlveda will move to the front of the Crouse Hinds Theater stage Jan. 25 to perform ...

Ella Xu, Grand Prize Winner of the Philadelphia International Music Festival Spring 2023 Virtual Concerto Competition, captivated audiences with her performance of Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto ...