Performed by soloist Sandy Cameron conducted by John Mauceri, Elfman's album opens with his violin concerto in four movements: Grave – Animato, Spietato, Fratasma, and Giocoso – Lacrimae. The album ...

They may have sensed, as well, that acoustical challenges are not the only difficulty rock-fusion works pose. Rock fans often hear the results as watered down, while classical listeners hear them as ...

The latest instalment of Hyperion's series The Romantic Piano Concerto turns its attention to Eyvind Alnaes (1872-1932) and Christian Sinding (1856-1941), two Norwegian composers whose reputations ...

Mozart wrote three of his finest piano concertos, nos 23, 24 and 25, in a single year. Beauty, passion and grace combine as the piano engages in an intimate dialogue with the orchestra. Watching a ...

When he was a child, music critic Tom Manoff heard the music of Edvard Grieg, particularly his piano concerto in A-minor. This piece of music is known as a workhorse. In pop music, it would be ...

This relatively new musical tradition of turntablism has a fascinating and rich history which is only about 40 years old. To my mind it’s one of the most unique and interesting instruments to emerge ...

John Butt and the Dunedin Consort have already recorded Bach's Matthew and John Passions, as well as Handel's Messiah, and his oratorio Esther for Linn, but this is their first venture into purely ...

Avi Avital is the featured performer in "InstaConcerto for Mandolin and Orchestra," a 75-second concerto written for Instagram. Harald Hoffman/Deutsche Grammophon What do you think of when you think ...

From principal oboist Mary Lynch’s reedy mastery to the politely timed coughing of its die-hard patrons (a mini-explosion between movements), the Seattle Symphony holds an eternal soft spot in my ...

An arresting, decisive call to action from Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra launches a powerful performance of Dvoˇrák’s Violin Concerto, in which Julia Fischer is a soloist with a mix of strong projection ...

In this age of Twitter and Snapchat, we boil essays down to 140 characters, and videos can be no more than a handful of seconds. But what about a classical concerto? Can it be boiled down? Keep it ...