When he started listening to BTS’s music during the Covid-19 pandemic, Henry Cheng didn’t expect to end up writing a 15-minute-long suite of classical music based on it. But the composer-conductor ...
Flutist Leone Buyse. Photo by David Long. Courtesy of leonebuyse.com. Like an Around the World and Back snap, Bach’s Suite in B Minor for Flute and Strings takes the listener pretty much everywhere.
They’re called Bach’s English Suites, but no one really knows why. Bach never went to England, and the music sounds more French than anything else. But when Rochelle Sennet plays the English Suite No.
A word or two first about the convent church of Malling Abbey in Kent. Founded as a nunnery by Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester and the man also responsible for the Tower of London’s central glory, the ...
As every clever Scarlatti disc or recital should, this one has had some thought put into the selection and arrangement of the sonatas, rather than just willy-nilly lumping together personal favorites.
Classical music and jazz. They’re like jealous siblings who deep down love each other, but just can’t stop rowing in public.
What followed is a 55-year love affair with classical music — branching out to discover greats like Brahms, Bruch, Mahler, Chopin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Elgar as well as lesser known ...
University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites are some of the most iconic classical music works. They have inspired not only ...