The title really ought to come in quotation marks, for of the five works that Alexei Ogrintchouk plays on his first solo recording for BIS, only one, the Adagio from the Sinfonia of the Easter ...

In 1945, a corporal in the U.S. army (and oboist) visited Richard Strauss at his home and asked him if he had ever considered writing an oboe concerto. The old man declined. Six months later - aged 81 ...

This is the first Vaughan Williams symphony in Mark Elder's English music series with the Hallé, and it's interesting that he should choose the one work among the nine that was both its composer's ...

From principal oboist Mary Lynch’s reedy mastery to the politely timed coughing of its die-hard patrons (a mini-explosion between movements), the Seattle Symphony holds an eternal soft spot in my ...

American composer John Williams began arranging and scoring music for film and television in the late 1950s. In a career spanning sixty years, Williams has composed iconic themes for Superman, Raiders ...

Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C K314, performed on an instrument full of helium, because of course. Yesterday clarinettist Emil Jonason introduced something very, er, interesting: Mozart's Clarinet ...

As an occasional pianist, a much-loved entertainment is a trip to the concert hall in Dublin to hear a top performer in action with an orchestra. Recently in Earlsfort Terrace, Finghin Collins, ...

After four years of discipline and dedication, University of Arizona senior Maya Griswold is on her way to completing her undergraduate in music and is looking towards the future. Following her final ...