Being an innovator can often mean traveling a lonely road. Singer/songwriter Laufey knows that better than most. The ...

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This piano concerto, one of the best pieces of classical romantic music, is familiar to many: it famously featured in the 1945 film Brief Encounter, directed by David Lean. Rachmaninov’s ...

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Ravel’s solo piano works, choral pieces by David Lang ... As elsewhere, Cho plays with remarkable sensitivity and easily meets the music’s technical demands. Yet the high refinement of his ...

A glamorous figure in classical music, the elegant, golden-haired Ms. Tipo was able to elicit a rainbow’s worth of tonal colors from her instrument.

Morihiro Hayashi's new manga Star of Beethoven debuted this week in Shonen Jump. But has it got what it takes to stick around ...

Puccini and Leoncavallo's race to produce their rival operas is basis of comedy-drama by former Gramophone Editor ...

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