-
This weekend's Fort Smith Symphony concert is titled "The Gospel According to Swing" featuring guest trumpeter Byron Stripling. Find out more in my…
-
"I consider 'Liquid Interface' my first symphony," writes contemporary composer Mason Bates. "What I'm doing is running with the programmatic idea of the…
-
The Seattle Symphony continues its exploration of American composer Charles Ives in their latest release that includes #3, #4 and his "Unanswered…
-
Considered by many the height of Sibelius's orchestral achievements is the symphonic poem "Tapiola" inspired by the mythological forest-god of the Finnish…
-
No one typifies American classical music via folk Americana better than Aaron Copland. His 3rd symphony was written in the 1940s, commissioned by the…
-
Catch a wide expanse of orchestral music through the centuries when the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (SoNA) presents "Masterworks II: Strings in the…
-
Listen to two distinct requiems, one from the 18th century and another from the 20th, in this week's program with Cherubini's in C minor and Silvestrov's…
-
Prolific Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu, born in an 1890s Bohemia, penned six symphonies among nearly 400 classical works in his lifetime. Hear the first…
-
What's not to love about Mozart's brooding Symphony in G minor where contrasts abound? Catch it from the Stuttgart Kammerorchester under Dennis Russell…
-
Conductor Gustavo Dudamel calls Mahler's Seventh a "cosmic symphony -- a symphony of everything," explaining "from chaos to glory, sarcasm to tenderness,…