WHAT: Bloomington Symphony Orchestra’s Ryo Hasegawa conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with full orchestra and 100+ singers, ...

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 ...

Ahead of a new four-part series exploring how the symphony has shaped our history and identity, Mark Elder choses the form's five key works It's thanks to Haydn that the symphony became the place ...

Lyrical moments – turns of phrase, one line out of many – are among the more underrated moments in music with vocals. It’s not so much the lyric as a whole, or the performance as a whole either, as it ...

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 ...

Days of looking at crossed-out dates on original manuscripts with magnifying glass reveals different dates on five works from composer’s early period Mozart symphonies from one of the most important ...

In 1849, Richard Wagner declared, with his usual assurance, that “the last symphony has already been written.” Beethoven’s Ninth, with its eruption of voices in the finale, had, in Wagner’s view, ...

Mahler's song "Ging heut' morgens" later appeared as a purely instrumental theme in his Symphony No. 1 (Thomas Hampson, baritone). Gustav Mahler died 97 years ago today — May 18, 1911. Today, he's ...

Def Leppard announced the release of Drastic Symphonies, an album that presents some of the band’s classic songs as classical pieces. The band has “deconstructed and rebuilt not only some of their ...