The Aspen Music Festival has delivered some splendid big-performance pieces for final concerts over the years, but it’s been a long time since anything made so completely magnificent an impact as ...

It depends on where you sit, but even in the very front row of the seating under the dome, what in continental terms would be seen as a VIP seat but made available because the three unreserved press ...

Acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta leads a massive musical force of over 100 musicians, including four antiphonal off-stage brass ensembles, and a chorus of 140 singers in a new recording of Grande ...

Falletta, the orchestra’s music director, makes sure the score’s fervent pages receive full, dramatic justice. When the brass choirs and timpani make their first entrance in the ‘Dies irae’, you feel ...

The Berlioz Requiem is one of the strange and wondrous beasts of the musical menagerie. It is by turns monumental and transparent, urgent and serene. It was conceived for vast performing forces, but ...