Seven conductors share what it’s like to lead Anton Bruckner’s monumental symphonies, and why they resonate today.
Category: Classical Music
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Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years
An unknown work in the composer’s hand has emerged in a New York museum, the first such find in more than a half century. The pianist Lang Lang plays it here.
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Three New Books Make the Case for Music as Medicine
Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.
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Review: A Standard Rushes Back to the Philharmonic
The New York Philharmonic has played Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony twice in two years. Rafael Payare led its latest outing.
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Philip Glass’s Musical Impression of an Artist Cut Down by AIDS
Glass’s Fourth String Quartet, written after the death of the artist Brian Buczak, will be performed at the New York City AIDS Memorial.
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Circe and Muse No Longer: A New Opera Reconsiders Alma Mahler
“Alma,” premiering this week at the Vienna Volksoper, views its often-vilified protagonist through a feminist lens: as a thwarted composer and mother.
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In the Art Biennale’s Shadow, Venice Celebrates Music, Too
It may not be as big or run as long as its visual arts sibling, but the Music Biennale includes a wealth of commissions and premieres.
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A Mental Tightrope: When Instrumental Musicians Have to Sing, Too
Artists who take up contemporary music sometimes have to sing and play at the same time. The results can be extraordinarily powerful.
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Review: A Choir Stands Out in a Multimedia Performance
The Crossing is one of many elements in “Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness,” which links pieces by Gabriela Ortiz in a five-movement meditation.
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At 150, Charles Ives Still Reflects the Darkness and Hope of America
This pioneering composer is not the easiest to love. But while he explores the poison of American nationalism, his music also offers an antidote.
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Adam Abeshouse, Prolific Producer of Classical Music, Dies at 63
A trained violinist, he found his calling in the studio control room. He also started a foundation to help fund recordings that lack major-label support.
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The Exquisite Fragility of Mark Andre’s Music
Andre’s family history is one of precarity and mutability. His works, vulnerable and intricate, aren’t so different.