Germany has produced some of the greatest compositional voices in history – many of whom are considered among the best across ...

Two recent recordings present compelling music for piano cast in starkly differentiated styles, both by contemporary ...

B. Franklin (attr.): Quartet in F major for Three Violins and Cello Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 33, No. 2, “The Joke” Mozart: String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589, “Prussian” ...

Why do composers borrow music for their new works”?

The second of Taconic Music’s Chamber Music Saturdays concerts, “Musical Crossovers,” will take place on June 27 at 7:30pm at ...

What might have been going through Mozart's mind as he sat at the keyboard composing a concert aria for British soprano Nancy Storace? Watching ...

This is the premiere recording of sacred cantatas by JL Bach: works preserved due to his distant cousin, JS Bach, copying them for performance. Conductor Johanna Soller brings them to sensitive and ...

Hungarian conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy stepped in for an unwell Mario Venzago, but the programme of two J.S. Bach keyboard concertos and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 remained, surely to the delight ...

These performances of Bach’s solo works are elegant and persuasive – balancing a modern tone with an alert awareness of period style To celebrate his 50th birthday, Renaud Capuçon has recorded Bach’s ...

Wolfram Weimer, the German culture minister; Peter Wollny, director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig; and Burkhard Jung, Leipzig's mayor pictured with the two compositions Jens Schlüter / Bach Archive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Simone Dinnerstein (in front of the piano) and Baroklyn at Kaufman Music ...