Still a crowd-pleaser after 300 years.
For a taste of the pianist's technique, here's a lighter mood from Shostakovich that sparkles with interlocking inner voices that ripple as clear as a mountain stream.
On his new album, Mozart & Contemporaries , the deep-thinking pianist from Iceland aims to debunk the image of Amadeus as the giggling savant by contrasting his music with that of his peers.
With bold harmonies, pointillist texture and winding rhythms, Ólafsson's composition offers — in less than two minutes — a distinctly modern sound that looks toward the future.
With sets shipped from Europe stuck on a boat that can't dock because of coronavirus disruption, LA Opera went to work building new sets, cramming months of work into ten days.
Greek composer and politician Mikis Theodorakis has died. He was 96 years old. His music for Zorba the Greek was full of joy — but his own story was much more complicated.
A simple, wistful daydream of a piece that will make you wonder where this undervalued composer has been all your life.
Composer Tyshawn Sorey's symphonic salute to one of his mentors, For George Lewis , evolves gradually in tranquil, multi-textured waves of sound.