From the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tanglewood to a collection of concerts at Newport mansions, the summer is brimming with opportunities to experience classical music. WBUR arts critic Lloyd ...

Beginning the program was J.S. Bach’s spirited Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major. Tessa Lark and flutist Alex Sopp, both ...

"Chicago was really the place that really pushed me not only as a conductor but as a musician overall and showed me what the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Look no further for the events marking the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. As ...

For Adam Jackson, the piano represents endless possibilities. “The repertoire that pianists have is just so vast. So many composers wrote some of best music for piano and even composers who didn ...

Major orchestras in the US and around the world need little excuse to program the symphonic music of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich ... turmoil came the Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, which ...

Despite the political complications of his life and their impact on his work, Shostakovich is now a staple of symphony programming. The Cleveland Orchestra will be playing his Symphony No. 5 this week ...

The finale was Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, firmly in the conductor’s expertise ... until an oblique rhythm marks a bridge to the driving, Bernstein-esque second section. Though neither conceptual ...

The festivities kick off opening night, October 7, with the NYO-USA All-Stars orchestra, conductor Daniel Harding, and pianist Yuja Wang playing Symphonic Dances from Leonard Bernstein ... Boston ...

a report by Bernstein stated that DeepSeek looks fantastic but not a miracle and not built in USD 5 million. The report addressed the buzz around DeepSeek's models, particularly the idea that the ...

I first heard the Fifth Symphony on a $2.99 cassette tape recording of Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. The ending was played very fast and sounded glorious. Shostakovich heard ... In ...