Tag Archives: classical music

Life for an up-and-coming concert pianist is an endless cycle of practicing and marketing...and yet more marketing.

Documenting the lives of Beethoven and Mozart

Putting aside my usual musical taste and learning to love the flavor of classical music, one bite at a time.

Tectonic new music.

A remarkable disc of music equal to anything written or recorded by any composer or symphony orchestra the world over.

Everyone “plays their hearts out” and guest conductors often remark on “how fast we get it.”

Arvo Pärt's glorious Fourth Symphony is now available.

Avi Avital’s mandolin, sharing center stage with a variety of other instruments, like the tambourine, the accordion, and the harp, became the undisputed winner of the evening.

Lignes is one of the most adventurous albums I have heard in quite some time

Dans les arbres is an audacious piece of new music from this quartet.