NORTHERN CALIFORNIA - The North State Symphony is set to close its 2024–2025 season with a stirring finale this Mother's Day weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, audiences in both Chico and Redding will ...

The first movement is a veritable feast of cheeky, toe-tapping tunes you may find yourself humming as you leave. Its frisky ...

To be sure, Shostakovich’s music requires a conductor to patiently marshal forces so that a sonic outburst like the massacre scene of the 11th Symphony rings out with traumatic force.

A performance of the rarely heard “Symphony No. 4” revealed Gianandrea Noseda’s keen understanding of Shostakovich’s music.

In commissioning it, the BSO requested that Vrebalov set Psalms to music — the intention was to link “Love Canticles” with ...

Uchida’s playing was never forceful, but always clear and fluent, emphasizing the music’s delicate ... a different sonic universe with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15. From its eerie ...

Tim Storhoff wasn’t in his current position when last year’s Symphony in the Gardens took place at Botanica. But the event’s reputation is something that attracted him to the position of ...

of which he was music director from 2008 to 2018, he delivered quite a concert. Offhand, I can’t remember a performance as edge-of-the-seat exciting as Thursday’s Shostakovich Fifth Symphony.

This issue features interviews with cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the Takács Quartet and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, guides to Sofronitsky and Silvestrov, and a deep dive into Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 3 ...

His music is complicated and uncompromising, yet somehow also inviting. Even when his scores overwhelm—I’m thinking of you, “An einem Klaren Tag” (“On a Clear Day”)—they don’t ...