Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The music most people associate with György Ligeti is his orchestral piece Atmosphères, used in Stanley Kubrick ...

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst’s one-movement concerto, premiered by him in 1846, is his most ambitious work. Virtuosos ignore it today in the belief that its immense difficulties outweigh its aesthetic value ...

JoAnn Falletta conducts the first of a two-weekend Beethoven festival, featuring the BPO’s Concert Master, violinist Nikki ...

The ever-industrious Bohuslav Martinů never seems to have allowed himself a day off. Other composers of his time were trying their hands at the form of the double concerto, but only Martinů could have ...

If you have come to expect sublime lyricism and melody from Tchaikovsky, his violin concerto will certainly not disappoint. One of the most popular pieces of music ever written, this concerto is ...

Sometimes you really want to belt out a great passage of your favourite concerto. Great! But what if it's a summer's afternoon and you don't have an orchestra immediately to hand? That's no problem ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook In back-to-back programs, the orchestra presented concertos by Beethoven and Benjamin Britten. By Oussama Zahr The violin concertos ...

Danny Elfman, famed for his film scores and (for you old-timers) the band Oingo Boingo, has dived into concert music with a satisfying splash. The prolific composer's first Violin Concerto, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page Unsuk Chin was inspired by Leonidas Kavakos to return to the genre, and the result comes to Carnegie Hall on Monday. By David Allen ...

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Jacques Loussier clangs musical genera together like an orchestral cymbalist reaching crescendo. After having weaved his way through Bach, Chopin, Handel and Satie, maestro Loussier turns his ...