This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...
Mozart never got to see a movie, but if he lived today, he'd be crazy about them. He's the main event in the Swedish film Elvira Madigan, because his Piano Concerto No. 21 has made the film famous — ...
Adolphus Hailstork is one of America’s most respected living composers. He once said he wanted his First Piano Concerto to ...
Alongside his Symphonies, the Piano Concertos of Beethoven have been towering masterworks for two centuries. Nir Kabaretti and The Symphony present all five of Beethoven’s Concertos across a single ...
Williams is best known for his grandly symphonic, Oscar-winning film scores. But his latest concert work is quieter, and more haunting. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Lenox, Mass. You could be ...
Although highly praised at the time of their initial release on RCA Victor, John Browning’s late 1960s recordings of the five Prokofiev piano concertos didn’t last long in the LP catalog. This ...
William Bolcom’s recent work, written for the pianist Igor Levit, is streaming after its premiere earlier this year. By Seth Colter Walls It took the composer William Bolcom over 40 years to follow ...
From principal oboist Mary Lynch’s reedy mastery to the politely timed coughing of its die-hard patrons (a mini-explosion between movements), the Seattle Symphony holds an eternal soft spot in my ...
China's Wang Yujia will play 'the hardest concerto for pianists' in her upcoming concerts in Beijing and Guangzhou in March. Xu Jingxi finds out more about the greatly anticipated performance, a ...
The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2017 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's monumental concerto met all the composer's impossible demands. A new live recording of the event is both serious and fabulous.
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