We think these are the greatest symphonies of all time – the biggest, most emotional, most impressive and plain-old flabbergasting works ever written. Nothing beats the sound of an orchestra ...

Lyrical moments – turns of phrase, one line out of many – are among the more underrated moments in music with vocals. It’s not so much the lyric as a whole, or the performance as a whole either, as it ...

Franz Joseph Haydn never gets the attention he deserves. His friend Mozart and his student Beethoven tend to soak up most of the spotlight, but neither of those guys is called the “father” of anything ...

The symphonic form has been the calling card of orchestras since the 18th century — a longform piece of music that champions grand scale and big ideas. They can be thrilling. They can be intimate. The ...

Pocket Symphonies will play on March 8 at 5 p.m. in the Maury Young Arts Centre. Visit whistlerchambermusic.ca/concert/pocket-symphonies for tickets.

The Mendelssohn String symphonies have been fairly well served on record, both quantitatively and quality-wise[1], but ultimately they never quite sounded like youthful Mendelssohnian masterworks but, ...

Marketing managers for major orchestras had always assumed that convincing people to give the symphony a try was the key to gaining subscribers. “Get people through the doors!” was their mantra, ...

Mahler's song "Ging heut' morgens" later appeared as a purely instrumental theme in his Symphony No. 1 (Thomas Hampson, baritone). Gustav Mahler died 97 years ago today — May 18, 1911. Today, he's ...

The prodigious young talent has an exclusive recording contract with Decca but his debut – a Sibelius symphony cycle – is frustratingly uneven The Finn Klaus Mäkelä is still only 26, but he has ...

The opening Allegro immediately delivers a feeling of restlessness, as divided violas accompany the principal subject in quiet agitation. The tone of this subject is both poignant and tense, and ...