In December 2000, KRCU general manager Greg Petrowich and "Sunday Night at the Opera" host Barbara Herbert drove to Poplar Bluff, Mo., in a pickup truck on a mission to bring more classical music to ...

This disc’s sleeve note suggests that Kabalevsky’s Cello Concerto No. 2 “owes an obvious debt to the composer’s colleague and one-time neighbour Dmitri Shostakovich”. It does indeed, several passages ...

Melchior Franck was born around 1579 and died 60 years later. No relation to the many other composing Francks (César, Eduard, Richard). He was prolific, the liner notes tell us, with about 1500 works ...

The Lyric FM label has been putting out a wealth of great Irish music since 2004, writes ARMINTA WALLACE WE HEAR so many gloomy noises emanating from the classical recording industry these days that ...

Francisco Fullana is, to my knowledge, the first violinist to record Max Richter’s ingenious Four Seasons Recomposed since the initial outing with Daniel Hope on Deutsche Grammphon (among my favorite ...

Chopin’s solo piano études helped push the genre into uncharted territory. He would have practiced examples by Czerny and Clementi in his youth, but his own Op. 10 and Op. 25 sets make far more ...

Not sure whether that new CD by the Three Spintos is really worth it? Considering a DVD of Lester Lanin's greatest hits but not sure of its quality? As 2001 comes to an end, The Chronicle performing ...

Longtime fans of Performance Today will know the name -- and recognize the chipper voice -- of Ted Libbey. For a dozen years, Libbey was Performance Today's primary authority on classical recordings, ...

Longtime fans of Performance Today will know the name -- and recognize the chipper voice -- of Ted Libbey. For a dozen years, Libbey was Performance Today's primary authority on classical recordings, ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "In the heyday of George Szell's tenure as its chief conductor," declared ...

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ROME, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Pope Francis, a lover of classical music, slipped out of the Vatican on Tuesday evening to visit old friends who run a Rome record shop and came away with a gift of a CD. The ...