Q: What measures 11 inches square and 7 inches high, weighs 21 1/2 pounds and takes 10 days and nights to play? A: A new box set jam-packed with 200 CDs that contains every note composed by Wolfgang ...
Decca and Deutsche Grammophon have announced a gigantic, 200-CD box set that contains every single work -- all the symphonies, concertos and operas, plus a newly discovered composition -- by… By Marc ...
A mammoth box set of Mozart's music is officially the best-selling CD release of 2016. Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition has sold a total of 1.25 million CDs in the five weeks since its release, ...
Born in 1940, Vyacheslav Artyomov trained as a physicist before switching to music. He joined forces with fellow composers Sofia Gubaidlina and Viktor Suslin in the mid-1970s to form a group ...
Yet more Britten – the composer’s centenary has unleashed a welcome flood of new recordings and reissues. Candida Thompson’s Amsterdam Sinfonietta disc is pretty special – vibrant, incisive and ...
The November 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” features important works created by the man Martin Bookspan called “one of the principal ...
Back in August, Decca and Deutsche Grammophon announced a 200-disc box set comprising more than 4,000 Mozart tracks and 240 hours of music—the biggest box set release ever. It’s now become the biggest ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Robert Levin has long argued that Mozart would have made up new material while performing, and he follows the master in a series of ...
Tony Award-winning director Robert Falls makes his Steppenwolf debut with the play about rival composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.