This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...
A particularly evocative Largo in Vivaldi ’s Concerto in G ‘La notte’ set the tone. Calm sustained chords cushioned Horsch’s ...
There have been CDs of ‘Danish’ Baroque orchestral repertoire before, notably from Concerto Copenhagen, but there’s certainly room for more. I put ‘Danish’ in inverted commas because none of these ...
In this series, Classical 91.7's music librarian Chris Hathaway reviews new additions to our ever-growing CD library. This month, Chris reviews the piano music of Judith Lang Zaimont (some of it new) ...
The Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra presents its final Valley Vivaldi concert of the season Sunday at Wesley Church in Bethlehem. Joining the ensemble, which includes principal instrumentalists of the ...
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announces the November 17 release of its latest recording Concertos for Orchestra, the second under Music Director Louis Langrée. The recording features the ...
In 1949, pianist Oscar Levant released an LP of the most famous extended work for piano and orchestra ever penned by an American composer: George Gershwin’s Concerto in F (1925). The piece looms large ...
The feisty red-headed priest, Antonio Vivaldi, really did write some 500 concertos. Six of them were for recorder. We take you to Toronto where Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra is in concert with recorder ...
Recording a CD of some of your favourite music with colleagues and friends you have been playing with for half your life is a momentous occasion. I have played with the English Baroque Soloists since ...