This first volume in Angela Hewitt’s projected Mozart concerto series deserves praise for featuring three early pieces, instead of starting with the better-known mature works. Which isn’t a slight on ...

Tchaikovsky worshiped Mozart, whom he claimed not merely to like but to “adore and idolize.” Nevertheless, though their music does share a sovereign clarity of texture, he didn’t often write like his ...

The Mainly Mozart Festival opened last week with a late Baroque era composer’s dissonant chord that seemed to look ahead to the anything-goes harmony of the 20th century. Saturday evening’s festival ...

Thankfully, eight is not enough. For the opening number Thursday, Zhang led the orchestra in a piece the Jersey band premiered back in 2001, David Ludwig’s “NightVision.” The seven-minute piece opened ...

With the unfathomable amount of classical music that is available to us, here are a few pieces that everyone needs to know. Many of them are known in part but getting to know them in their full glory ...

SHEBOYGAN – The Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra will bring the music of Mozart, Tchaikovsky and a Grammy Award-winning composer to the stage Saturday. In a 7:30 p.m. March 8 concert at Stefanie H. Weill ...

G major; bright and fast. It was a rhythmically tricky gigue by Mozart made more complex by the fact that it was not Mozart who scored it for orchestra. Conductor Edward Cumming opened the second ...

All of the pieces mentioned in this article can be found in this spotify playlist, for easier navigation. “Little by little my prejudices against classical music began to fade away ... It came as a ...