One fall afternoon — red leaves, silver drizzle — a friend and I were given a tour of Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire. We learned many things: how the Shakers believed in a life of ...

The National Piano & Violin Competition (NPVC), Singapore’s premier music competitive musical platform, returned to live concerts after the pandemic had reduced its 2021 edition to just online ...

A piano and a violin - separated by the horrors of Nazi Germany - are once again reunited. A bittersweet tale lies at the heart of how these instruments went from tragedy to harmony. A piano and a ...

Chausson`s concerto (1889-91) is a now-dramatic, now-tender dialogue between violin and piano set against the lush interjections of a string quartet. Its unusual form has no doubt militated against ...

One of the most difficult-to-understand terms for newcomers (and even experienced enthusiasts) in audio and sound reproduction is the decibel, partly because it’s a measure of relative intensity or ...

Program: Works for Violin and Piano by Claude Debussy, Leos Janacek, Healey Willan, Claude Viver, and T. Patrick Carrabré. Carissa Klopoushak and Philip Chiu have performed extensively together over ...

Instead of sounding its usual, barnstorming self, Franck’s much-played Sonata for Violin and Piano emerges here elegant, clear and expressive. Isabelle Faust has chosen to record the work using gut ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Britten centenary is turning into a CD bonanza. Hot on the heels of Ian Bostridge’s song anthology comes this ...

Alexander Melnikov (piano),Jeroen Berwaerts (trumpet), Mahler Chamber Orchestra/ Teodor Currentzis, Isabelle Faust (violin) Harmonia Mundi HMC 902104**** Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto of 1933, ...

With the Seattle Symphony still in the news with the record-breaking appointment of four concertmasters, perhaps music lovers with violinists on their mind might enjoy checking out these new CDs by ...

As a concert hall, Sanders Theatre comes close to being a joke. Boisterous pedestrians, revved engines, and low-flying jets are heard in profusion. All have a perverse way of intruding into the music ...