Tenor Miles Mykkanen, more reserved but no less attentive, nailed his short but demanding solo during the buoyant Turkish ...

How did Samuel Barber's stirring, lush work for strings — music that has become America's semi-official music of mourning — morph into a... From Funerals To Festivals, The Curious Journey Of The ...

The Quincy Symphony Orchestra and Quincy Choral Society will present "A German Requiem" by Johannes Brahms at 4 p.m. Nov. 2.

This is a beautiful collection of American music, lovingly and brilliantly performed. With Barber’s Adagio you might fear that Bernstein would ‘do a Nimrod’ and present it with exaggerated ...

In classical music, concertos usually feature string instruments out front, full of fast notes and explosive melodies. Composer Tyshawn Sorey instead decided to slow things down on his ...

Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali's slow tempos worked wonders with Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, but bogged down Sibelius' ...

Rich Carter says it's his "first big break," which is rather like calling the Hope diamond a trinket. Earlier this month the Chicago Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of "Adagio for Children, ...

A lone violin piece that replaced one of Mozart's concerto movements, this piece has become legendary in its own right. In addition to his five complete violin concertos, Mozart composed a few ...

This new book about Samuel Barber’s famous, eloquently mournful “Adagio for Strings” is 262 pages long. About one-fourth of those pages are eminently worthy of the music lovers’ careful attention. In ...

Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59, "Für Elise" Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27:2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio Sostenuto Sonata No. 5 in F Major for Violin and ...