Hector Berlioz was undoubtedly one of the pioneers among the great reformers of music of the 19th century. He was better able than anyone to make use of the potential of the orchestra, was highly ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Some sounds simply can’t be forgotten, no matter the beautiful music that precedes or follows them. Even as the Cleveland Orchestra and guest conductor Alain Altinoglu wooed a ...

A conductor’s relationship to music while performing can roughly be mapped on a spectrum, and great conductors exist at all points on that spectrum. At one extreme is Leonard Bernstein, whose ...

(Le) Chasseur maudit, '(The) Accursed Huntsman' Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Alain Altinoglu, Conductor Redemption Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra Alain Altinoglu, Conductor Having been ...

In the third, a searching cello line moves up and down the entire range of the instrument, and at the end, the juxtaposition of the ascending cello and descending contrabassoon was captivating. The ...

PARIS—The Paris Opera's new production of Gounod's "Faust" got off to a shaky start. After disagreements with star tenor Roberto Alagna, veteran conductor Alain Lombard walked out a week before the ...

The latest edition of the Festival International de Colmar opens with an exceptional performance from the Orchestre Symphonique du Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles, conducted by Alain ...

A new Carmina Burana has to offer a great deal more than spirit to stand out from the crowd these days. There needs to be a touch of the outrageous about it – tempos that are a little dangerous, ...

‘A symphony is not a joke!’ For Johannes Brahms, composing a symphony was utterly serious and also a weighty task in which he constantly felt Beethoven, who had taken the genre to unprecedented ...