Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is the music we are often tortured with while on hold to speak to a bank or utility company. Since the subliminal message is that we might have to wait a while –perhaps even ...

Sunday Baroque is welcoming 2026 this weekend with some of the greatest hits of the baroque era. The beloved favorites ...

Julian Lloyd Webber is, he tells me, aching all over. Playing the cello, he explains, “is a very physical thing” and our most ...

BurJuman, the ultimate luxury shopping destination, has been transformed into a concert hall, as it hosts an exclusive rendition of Vivaldi’s infamous ...

FOR THE EARS Go Bach to the Concert Hall and Get a Handel on the Holidays Whil Pro Musica packages its bounty of year-end concerts as a Bach Festival, they have a wider range than the convenient title ...

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German pianist Schaghajegh Nosrati gives a recital at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, performing music including Bach's French Overture in B minor and Alkan's Symphony for solo piano.

Like much on the mind of the general public, climate change is now in the voices of Opera Philadelphia in The Seasons, an ambitious opera/dance expansion of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons warning of a ...

While I don’t subscribe to the belief that classical music should be embraced as a kind of aural sedative for harried hearts and minds, concert halls do provide a place to turn off your phone and ...

From homegrown heroes to visiting legends, here are Australia's favourite classical music and jazz stories this year.

In the coming weeks, Lorenza Borrani ​will direct a series of SCO concerts from a front-row seat in the first violins. ‘What ...

Here are 16 promising performing arts shows scheduled for January 2026, including 'Hamilton,' 'Amadeus,' and 'The Lehman ...