This upcoming season at the Palau – which has a strongly Bachian and Beethovenian flavour – features many of Europe’s most ...

Germany has produced some of the greatest compositional voices in history – many of whom are considered among the best across ...

B. Franklin (attr.): Quartet in F major for Three Violins and Cello Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, “The Joke” Mozart: String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589, “Prussian” ...

Why do composers borrow music for their new works”?

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What might have been going through Mozart's mind as he sat at the keyboard composing a concert aria for British soprano Nancy Storace? Watching ...

This is the premiere recording of sacred cantatas by JL Bach: works preserved due to his distant cousin, JS Bach, copying them for performance. Conductor Johanna Soller brings them to sensitive and ...

Hungarian conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy stepped in for an unwell Mario Venzago, but the programme of two J.S. Bach keyboard concertos and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 remained, surely to the delight ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Simone Dinnerstein (in front of the piano) and Baroklyn at Kaufman Music ...

Acclaimed pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns to Worcester for two performances as part of Music Worcester's BACHtoberfest Weekend. Dinnerstein was Music Worcester's first artist in residence in the ...

When you think of Worcester in the fall, Johann Sebastian Bach naturally comes to mind. Well, if that’s not the case for you, it will be eventually, thanks to Bachtoberfest. That’s the city’s annual ...

In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Click on the highlighted links to ...