An exceptional account of Bach’s Mass in B minor, traditional and unusual string quartets, and Thomas Adès suites are among the highlights.

Professional musician Alexandra Shatalova Prior guides readers through the nuances of some of the world’s best-known classical music. Each embedded video below offers a clip of the passage she ...

In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Click on the highlighted links to ...

The violin played as the Titanic ship sinks in the Hollywood film is expected to sell for £60,000 at auction. Amid the chaos of the sinking ship, a string quartet plays the hymn Nearer My God To Thee, ...

How looming federal cuts will impact health coverage in the San Joaquin Valley. Also, an update on the Yurok Tribe’s condor restoration program. Finally, the Crocker Art Museum has a new CEO.

For me it was a belief. It’s literally something dangerous and sensitive and lethal at the same time. If I feel that someone is treating music less than my expectations or my beliefs, I feel irritated ...

“The violin is no longer played,” he wrote. “It is pulled about, torn, beaten black and blue.” Kopatchinskaja doesn’t always beat music black and blue. She can reduce her sound to a ...

Here it has been determined not by the first movement, but by the last, which Beethoven based on a theme from his ballet music for The Creatures Of Prometheus, also in E flat major. Should we ...

The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra unified the pre- and post-modern in breathtaking harmony on Friday evening during its penultimate “Masterworks” concert of the 2024-25 season, “Beethoven’s ... phrases ...

Dog Paw is a new company, only just establishing itself a boutique builder of tech gear aimed to fit broad niches, and its self-titled first offering is a first public foray into the crowded world of ...

How fun it must be, when you can play Beethoven and Brahms ... The band evidently had fun. The violin players started moving more of their full bodies with the music, and Guterman Chu at one ...

A community hospital in Madera reopens two years after its closure. Also, remembering legendary Asian American journalist K.W. Lee. Finally, “In a Nutshell” storytelling at the Sofia.