The opening Allegro immediately delivers a feeling of restlessness, as divided violas accompany the principal subject in quiet agitation. The tone of this subject is both poignant and tense, and ...

A longtime selling point for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra has been that it usually performs music written for an ensemble of approximately its size. For example, the symphonies of Mozart and Joseph ...

Every great city deserves a significant symphony. Few acquire them. Often for prosaic reasons. Mozart’s 38th symphony is known as the “Prague” Symphony because it had its premiere during the ...

After tossing off a light-hearted, Latin program last month with a guest conductor, the Santa Rosa Symphony welcomed back Music Director Bruno Ferrandis on Saturday night with a serious, Viennese ...

There are only a couple of DVD recordings of Mozarts Symphony No 40 Fortunately this one by Karl Bohm recorded live in Viennas Musikvereinssaal is excellent as are the other Mozart symphonies on this ...

Maurice Boyer, associate conductor of The Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest, will conduct an “Austrian Serenade” concert on June 18 at the Nineteenth Century Club. Maurice Boyer favors the music ...

For classical music lovers, December 5 may be the saddest day of the year. At 12:55 a.m., 225 years ago, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart drew his last breath. Later, he was unceremoniously buried in a common ...

We think these are the greatest symphonies of all time – the biggest, most emotional, most impressive and plain-old flabbergasting works ever written. Nothing beats the sound of an orchestra ...

Franz Joseph Haydn never gets the attention he deserves. His friend Mozart and his student Beethoven tend to soak up most of the spotlight, but neither of those guys is called the “father” of anything ...

It's not quite the quest for the Holy Grail, but we're in pursuit this summer of the "Great American Symphony." And in many respects, our journey is just as important as our destination. In conductor ...