Classical Music

This weekend the San Antonio Symphony and Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing conclude the 2011-2012 Classics series with Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 and Bruckner Symphony No. 7. Olga Scheps is the soloist in the Liszt. Click here to buy tickets from ...  

Franklin Keel knows how important a symphony can be. While a student at A.C. Reynolds High School in 1998, the cellist captured the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist competition with his performance of Saint-Saens’ Concerto No ...  

The world’s favourite cello player, Yo-Yo Ma, made a fine show of his prodigious talents with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall on Thursday night. The showcase piece on the program was Edward Elgar’s 1918 Cello Concerto, the same piece ...  

Fans of Johann Sebastian Bach have a treat in store at the upcoming Raincross Chorale concert in Riverside. The 45-voice group will perform Bach’s Magnificat, with orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 3, at the Calvary Presbyterian Church ...  

Maestro Zukerman’s wife, Amanda Forsyth, has said, “The Brahms Double Concerto is the most important concerto for violin and cello. Pinchas and I have lived with and shared this concerto with each other, performing it together for fourteen years!  

The last Symphony Classics concert of the 2011-2012 season starts with the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2. It is no coincidence that the very first concert of the season included the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1. This season marks the 200th anniversary of the ...  

The violinist Gil Shaham replaces the pianist Yefim Bronfman as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening, Mr. Shaham will play Brahms's Violin Concerto instead of the previously scheduled Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2.  

Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg will perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor with Seattle Symphony Orchestra May 18-19, 2012. Also on the program: Mozart's Requiem. Gerard Schwarz will conduct.  

Classical pianist Stewart Goodyear is training like an athlete for an unusual marathon he'll attempt next week: performing all 32 of Ludwig van Beethoven's sonatas in the order they were composed in a single day. Stewart Goodyear: The Beethoven Marathon is ...  

Enjoy this video of Classical Minnesota Public Radio's 2011-2012 Artist in Residence, Chad Hoopes. If you would like to see him in person, Hoopes will perform at Sundin Music Hall, on the campus of Hamline University on Thursday, May 24, 2012, at 7 p.m.  

THE Beecroft Orchestra will present a concert at St Alban’s Church, Epping on Sunday, June 3, featuring masters student Jacky Wong as soloist performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3. The program will also include Haydn’s (London) Symphony 104 and ...  

He makes his Cleveland Orchestra debut at Blossom Music Center on Saturday, Aug. 4, under conductor James Gaffigan in a work that helped him win the trifecta of international piano competitions: Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1.  

HA NOI — Classical music lovers will be able to hear pianist Roger Muraro perform at the Ha Noi Opera House on June 19. Muraro will play pieces by Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt. Born in 1959 in France, Roger has won numerous international music awards ...  

When the Straight reaches him by phone, he’s in Minneapolis, Minnesota, fresh from his debut performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491—which he’ll be bringing to the Orpheum stage with the Vancouver Symphony ...  

Letting Jazz Have a Turn Interpreting the PoetsNew York TimesIt presented two major large-ensemble pieces by members of its orchestra, neither very well known as composers, for a three-night run at the Rose Theater: “God's Trombones,” by the trombonist Chris Crenshaw, and “Inferno,” by the saxophonist Sherman ...