Because composers today aren't falling over one another to write music for the lute, lutenists occasionally engage in creative borrowing — adapting music meant for other instruments. Here, one of ...

Food and drink trends affect us all, often crossing cultural, temporal, and geographic divides. Consider, for example, classical music composers Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 to 1750) and Ludwig van ...

Igor Levit’s first recording for Sony was of Beethoven’s last five piano sonatas, and his second of Bach’s six keyboard partitas. His latest release features monumental works by both of those ...

Works by the two master musicians will be celebrated with BC Music Department concerts. Works by two master musicians will be celebrated at Boston College this month with Music Department concerts in ...

Aiken Symphony will present works by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms at its November Masterworks concert. The Aiken Symphony, led by Music Director and Conductor Dr. Scott Weiss, will perform music by the ...

Feeling ‘suite’ toothed? Must be the Bach... A study has been published showing how classical music makes us crave chocolate biscuits and other sweet treats. No, we’re not going crackers. This ...

Like an ambitious mountaineer, Igor Levit evidently wants to scale Everest before he is 30. In this three-CD set he sets off to scale three musical peaks in the form of monumental sets of variations, ...

A selection of classical music travelling on the Voyager spacecraft at 100,000mph has made it outside our solar system, and is now 11.6 billion miles away from Earth. Launched in 1977, Voyager was ...