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Ten works revealing the paradox of Chopin: a composer outwardly delicate, inwardly steely; rooted in Polish dance rhythms, yet formed in Parisian sophistication.

American composer/pianist Thomas Nickell will continue his 2025/26 season with a solo piano recital at New York City's Tenri Cultural Institute. As a pianist, Mr. Nickell has given many public ...

Auerbach’s Ludwigs Alptraum (Ludwig’s Nightmare), composed in 2007 for the International Beethoven Competition in Bonn, was a dark reflection on that composer’s two fantasy-sonatas of Op. 27, with ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Howard Shelley, Conductor Frédéric (Friedrich Wilhelm Michael) Kalkbrenner, Composer Howard Shelley, Piano Concerto for Piano and ...

Double Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings Gli Incogniti Amandine Beyer, Violin Antonio Vivaldi, Composer Giuliano Carmignola, Violin Double Concerto for 2 Violins and Strings Antonio Vivaldi, Composer ...

The 91st Bach Festival continues with Candlelight by Concertos, a trio of three virtuoso performances.

One of Denise Dillenbeck’s earliest memories of the violin was hearing Itzhak Perlman play on "Sesame Street." ...

Imagine you’re at the London premiere of a new symphony by Haydn in February, 1795. The symphony ends and so you and other audience members rush from your seats up to the stage to applaud the composer ...

The Violin Sonata No. 1 by Johannes Brahms titled "Rain" adapts melodies from his earlier song that is a setting of a poem in which rain inspires nostalgic dreams of childhood. Brahms sent the ...

Seong-Jin Cho continues his Artist Portrait series with the LSO by performing Chopin's poetic Second Piano Concerto.

A keyboard is one of those pieces of gear you interact with constantly, yet it’s easy to overlook how much it affects your day-to-day comfort. From firing off emails to long coding sessions or ...