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Circa unites with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra to reimagine Bach’s most complex masterpiece The Art of Fugue.
Strauss didn’t look away from the horror of his times; he made music out of the experience. Like many of the works performed ...
And his sweeping arpeggios in the C minor No 12 lacked majesty and flexibility, as if the pianist was chasing the metronome. But he parsed the ‘stride piano’ cross-rhythmic phrases of the A minor No 4 ...
Formed in 1988, the Amici Ensemble has been part of Aotearoa’s classical music scene for over thirty-five years. Now under ...
A decade after its creation, Stevens shares a complex and conflicted view of the album he wrote about his mother in the wake ...
The 38-year-old comedian started his YouTube series ‘The Adam Friedland Show’ mostly as a joke. But in the wake of an ...
Breaking Bad gives us many different things to enjoy: drama, action, and deep characters. One of the most talked-about characters in the show is Skyler White. She is Walter White’s wife.
The fear didn’t come from outside, from the dark or from some monster in the closet. It came from within. From the air. From ...
Pianist Mari Kodama plays the “Pathétique” Sonata, No. 8 in c minor, Op. 13, by Ludwig van Beethoven. Mari Kodama played the “Pathétique” Sonata, part of a Pentatone recording of Beethoven’s complete ...
The musicologist Lawrence Kramer dates the “invention” of listening to the 18 th century, alongside the concept of the inner self. In his 2007 book Why Classical Music Still Matters, he writes, “All ...
The first two rounds of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition ended Sunday, May 25, with the announcement of 12 semifinalists. We’re covering the semifinal round, May 28 through June 1, ...