Christoph Poppen, violin; Hilliard Ensemble (ECM New Series). Welcome inside the head of J.S. Bach. The composer often embedded familiar Lutheran chorales in his music so as to create devout ...

I recently spent a decade developing a project that aimed to grow the repertoire of shorter compositions (“encore pieces”) for violin and piano. It involved 26 commissions and an open contest that ...

California’s oldest independent youth orchestra was founded right here in the Bay Area in one of the world’s liveliest centers of intellectual and artistic activity: Berkeley. When this took place in ...

In a world of classical music that tends to focus on the European and the deceased, Mark O'Connor leans generously in domestic directions. The American composer and violinist has journeyed through the ...

A Russian takes on Spain, some French-infused Chinese music, Spanish-inspired French tunes — it was a celebration of musical appropriation this weekend with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Igor ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

For five decades, Bernard Lurie was in the pantheon of outstanding musicians in Hartford. Together with Arthur Winograd, conductor of the Hartford Symphony, and Moshe Paranov, co-founder of the Hartt ...