Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Presented by Utah Symphony for the first time, Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosen" ...
This weekend the Houston Symphony presented three pieces in its classical series including Sibelius’s “Violin Concerto in D minor” and Mendelssohn’s famous composition “Scottish.” The crowd was ...
Revel in the delicate poetry and wistful romance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in the hands of Orion Weiss, celebrated as an “effortlessly brilliant performer” with “powerful technique and ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Mendelssohn’s Third Symphony is a brooding work of orchestral colour, inspired by the ruins of Holyrood ...
Elim Chan takes the podium in the first of five concerts as part of the ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights series. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Houston Symphony. Chan makes her Houston debut with this ...
Do orchestras really need a conductor? The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra proves again and again that baton timekeeping isn’t the only tool to bring musicians together. This weekend, German violist ...
PORT ANGELES — Music from “West Side Story,” Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, Brahms’ Requiem: The Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra’s 91st season of concerts is being unveiled now with featured ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Outside Scotland, the reputation of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra was made largely through its association ...
Mendelssohn visited Scotland in 1829 when he was just 20 years of age. He didn’t care for the local music, but his visit there at the start of his celebrated "Grand Tour" of Europe resulted in two of ...
Houston Symphony presents Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, where audiences will be transported to a world of ancient ruins and windswept Highland beauty, inspired by the composer’s trip to the British ...
A varied program titled Mendelssohn's Scottish with conductor young Kirill Karabits, it is the violin concerto that demands attention. Premiered in 1904, Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 ...