Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Rian Johnson, Patti Smith, Alex Ross and others offer favorite highlights of a composer best known for his sprawling length. In the past we’ve chosen ...

Sometimes a composer becomes so well known for a particular genre of music that other pieces go unrecognized. The following are three examples of composers who are famous for one thing but who ...

So many decent recordings of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.1 have appeared in recent years, and here’s another. James Ehnes was given superb support from Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth ...

“This is a book about a musician’s influence on non-musicians,” Alex Ross says. That’s good, because I am a non-musician. Ross is the premier music critic in the United States, and Wagnerism often ...

A surge of new film scores is drawing from centuries-old classical traditions while embracing modern innovations, reflecting both a neoclassical revival and the personal styles of today’s leading ...