Movement and some physical responses—including heart rate, breathing rate, and the electrical conductivity of skin (suggesting excitement)—may synchronize between audience members at classical ...

“Necroclassical”. Now, there’s a musical genre that I can safely say I’ve never heard before. In fact, it’s probably safe to say that it’s a new genre for many of you as well as it’s a term coined by ...

When performers didn't acknowledge the applause, I kept thinking the clappers might get the hint. But they never did in the Beethoven, and interstitial applause finally petered out only halfway ...

Most would agree that Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996) was Denmark's greatest symphonist after Carl Nielsen and Rued Langgaard. So it's something of an occasion that the three chamber symphonies from the ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A classical ensemble commences a sleek symphony; strings, woodwind and brass sections entwine — then a storming ...

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, ...

Sibelius’s mighty Finlandia is a triumphant celebration of the ancient beauty of Finland and the proud independence of her people. "It is as if the Almighty had thrown down pieces of a mosaic from ...