Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted. The orchestral forces for this piece, light on strings and heavy on brass and percussion, are divided into eight groups, each with its own percussionist, otherwise ranging ...

The liner notes on the new record describe the musician: “A short man growing slightly stocky, bald, Napoleonic. Smokes cigars. Can drink four framboises after dinner with no decline of intellectual ...

Michael Barenboim is a soloist and chamber musician on violin and viola who has performed under the baton of many of classical music’s biggest names including Asher Fisch with the Chicago Symphony ...

Now in its 79th year, the Ojai Music Festival is nothing if not boundary-pushing. And despite its casual vibe, music is taken seriously here. Among its distinctions, the largely outdoor festival has ...

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Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war ...

Robert Spano returns to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to revisit Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Over many years, the man has helped to define the music; but the music has also come to define ...

The bassoon screams, the brass howls, the reeds yelp, the flutes titter, the strings thrash, the drums thump — little snatches of melody everywhere. A cacophony: it swells, it bursts and then it dies.

His lofty forehead reminds one female worshiper of Beethoven. To most people, however, Conductor Pierre Boulez looks more like a career librarian. Glamour, image and sex appeal are not his bag. At a ...

Stravinsky: Pulcinella; Le chant du rossignol Boulez’s interpretative ‘cool’ suits Pulcinella – Stravinsky’s staggeringly inventive take on Pergolesi – better than the post-Rimskian fantasy of Le ...

UK Bassist Olie Brice’s tribute to a very great bassist takes the form of a “Ten Tracks” Feature. He writes: Richard Davis – who has died just a few days ago at the age of 93 – was one of a handful of ...