Written only nine years apart, these two concerti express very different aspects of Romanticism, and Widmann, who in 2013 was named Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards, brings a powerful enthusiasm to them that's evident throughout.

This vast narrative collage comprises an artful group biography and an account of an unprecedented phenomenon that has never recurred, and seems unlikely, in today's splintered culture, ever to do so.

Alberto Bonilla's powerful staging set in postwar Italy does just about everything right.

"Hate" is an old word, going all the way back to Anglo-Saxon (Old English). "Hate group" and "hate crime" sharply narrow the meaning of the word.

Newly released in standalone DVD and digital formats, the band's final show with founding keyboardist Jon Lord includes classic hits – "Woman from Tokyo," "Highway Star," "Hush," "Space Truckin'," and of course "Smoke on the Water."

This sensitively told story of an old black man taking piano lessons from a young white composer reminds us of the universality of the human experience and the power of friendship and love.

The three musicians did right by Brahms as they played some of the composer's most beautiful and dynamic music for violin, cello, and piano in Brooklyn's floating waterfront concert hall.

Despite its flaws, this dystopian fairy tale has the imaginative power to draw us into its world, then send us out with songs in our hearts.

Directed with precision and grace by Austin Pendleton on Charles Morgan's lovely sets, the superb cast brings to warm life this world of dimmed elegance with its lingering divide between the privileged and servant classes.

Welsh villagers are pressured to leave their ancestral homes when the government suspects their mountain may collapse.