Even the orchestral tone poems of Richard Strauss, their scores larded with tantalizing verbal hints such as “Of the Great Longing” or “Song of the Night Wanderer,” tend to slip off the analyst’s hook ...

Auerbach’s Ludwigs Alptraum (Ludwig’s Nightmare), composed in 2007 for the International Beethoven Competition in Bonn, was a dark reflection on that composer’s two fantasy-sonatas of Op. 27, with ...

The Vienna Philharmonic with conductor Andris Nelsons plays Kurtág’s Petite musique solennelle, Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6, 8 p.m. Saturday; and Strauss’s Also sprach ...

Lack of certainty is an underrated quality in classical music. The norm is to value repertoire performances that aren’t just technically precise but have a sense that the ideas about the music are ...

Manfred Honeck conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Seong-Jin Cho as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Manfred ...

Ensemble Connect, the professional-development program for young musicians founded by Carnegie Hall and The Juilliard School, ...

Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee star in Bellini’s I Puritani at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera This is a Bellini season at the Metropolitan Opera, which is both a welcome ...

1. Mahler: Symphony No. 7. Gustavo Dudamel/New York Philharmonic Gustavo Dudamel isn’t officially the music director of the New York Philharmonic until next season, but performances this year show ...

Emily D’Angelo stars as Jess in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine ...

Thomas Crawford conducted the American Classical Orchestra Thursday night at Alice Tully Hall. Epiphany is the season of the Morning Star, symbolizing hope, new beginnings, and the coming of light.

Hilary Hahn performed the Brahms Violin Concerto with Matthias Pintscher and the New York Philharmonic Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Add one, take one away. That’s the ...

Asiya Korepanova performed Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto with Karén Hakobyan conducing Pegasus: The Orchestra Saturday night at Merkin Hall. Photo: Emma Kazaryan On Saturday evening, Pegasus: The ...