Even after all these decades of exploration and rethinking, the sound of musical performance on period instruments retains its power to amaze. Thursday's superb concert by Nicholas McGegan and the ...

Last time, we looked at Mauricio Kagel’s instructions on how the timpani player should dive straight into the timpani itself at the end of “Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra,” and how the conductor ...

What: Jahja Ling conducts Beethoven and Oliverio. When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. Where:: Blossom Music Center, 1145 W. Steels Corners Road, Cuyahoga Falls. Tickets ...

Twenty minutes into the first movement of Beethoven’s violin concerto, the motif — four sixteenth notes rising up in pitch, then a fifth descending, ushering in another string of notes to echo the ...

Interesting discussion about what went wrong at the Oregon Symphony's performances of Beethoven's Ninth last weekend. Violist Charles Noble offers some insights: "There seemed to be a sense that we ...

Thirteen years ago, violinist Christian Tetzlaff made his Seattle debut in a spectacular but sparsely attended recital in Meany Theater (with the great pianist Leif-Ove Andsnes). The snow forecast ...