Even the orchestral tone poems of Richard Strauss, their scores larded with tantalizing verbal hints such as “Of the Great Longing” or “Song of the Night Wanderer,” tend to slip off the analyst’s hook ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Saturday night at David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic, under the ...

Beyond the challenging works themselves, the program proved notable in other respects. Theodore Thomas and the CSO gave the U.S. premieres of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben in 1900 as well as the ...

South African soprano Rangwanasha proved she is the real deal in a performance of Strauss’s Four Last Songs that’s let down by the RPO’s oddly pinched, poorly tuned backing ...

The London Symphony Orchestra’s associate artist Barbara Hannigan conducted a programme that mixed mainstream repertoire by Haydn and Strauss with less familiar music from the second half of the 20th ...

Richard Strauss had a life long love of the sound of the French horn, and today we’ll enjoy the Second Concerto performed by Barry Tuckwell. Listen on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream.

It’s the Edward-or-Jacob question of classical music. Which has more value: music for its own sake or music as representation? Last Friday’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) concert offered an ...

Barbara Hannigan’s latest appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) at the Barbican proved exactly that kind of event. The first half was devoted to one work – the UK premiere of Laura ...