If you think classical music is stuffy and pretentious, perhaps a few minutes with the London-based string trio Pluck will cure you of that notion. While the three are all classically trained ...

Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, dramatically filling choir stalls at the Auckland Town Hall, was magnificent with the NZ Symphony Orchestra. Photo / John McDermott The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ...

Santtu-Matias Rouvali brought his first season as The Philharmonia’s Principal Conductor to an end with a rousing account of Mahler’s monumental Resurrection Symphony. And while there were a few ...

A clip from, 'Behind the Scenes with Stewert Goodyear' on Youtube. The "Rach 3" as it's sometimes called, strikes fear into the heart of lesser pianists--but not Stewart Goodyear, who will be heard as ...

Lights (bright ones), cameras, action! Oh, and music! And advertisements! That was the tenor of the Sunday night Musikfest performance by the Allentown Symphony Orchestra and Summer Harmony men’s ...

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The orchestra were on fine form in the opener, William Walton’s suite from Henry V, described by (the not disinterested) Laurence Olivier as “the most wonderful score I’ve ever heard for a film”.

No slight meant toward the Dallas Wind Symphony, but the most ravishing moments in the group’s Tuesday-night concert came in a solo-piano encore: Alexander Scriabin’s Nocturne for left hand alone. In ...