Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, Four Orchestral Pieces, Op. 12 Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon). This is an altogether worthy addition to Boulez’s ongoing ...

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It may seem bizarre to spend the evening of Valentine's Day in the claustrophobic world of Bartok's one-act opera, "Bluebeard's Castle." The ominous husband doesn't exactly sweep his new wife off her ...

Every story has several interpretations. One could choose to look at the story of the ant and the grasshopper from the perspective of Aesop or Somerset Maugham. The Aesopian perspective on the Chicago ...

Pierre Boulez is wrapping up his winter residency at Symphony Center with the weekend Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts. Once again his programs have been cause for jubilation and regret. Jubilation ...

Stefanovich brings total mastery, athleticism and power to her recordings of Boulez’s second sonata, and other 20th-century piano works The title of Tamara Stefanovich’s latest release, Organised ...

In 1960, Leonard Bernstein introduced a work by Pierre Boulez, the classical music titan and longtime Chicago Symphony Orchestra guest conductor who passed away yesterday, to a New York audience as ...

On Sunday, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, having recently offered concerts pairing the music of Bela Bartók with that of Robert Schumann, kicks off another series of blind dates: pianist Paavali ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

An all Bartók programme featuring one of the leading violinists - Gidon Kremer - and one of the world's leading viola players - Yuri Bashmet. The Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Pierre Boulez, ...