When motion pictures were born, classical music was the ... For these, the director called on two pieces by the greatest ...

The first might be the most famous tune ever written. Everyone knows this one as “Pomp and Circumstance.” However, it is only ...

Ravel’s solo piano works, choral pieces by David Lang and Palestrina, and miniatures written for the pianist Adam Tendler are among the highlights.

From Billy Joel’s inability to resist a good Beethoven melody to Lady Gaga’s sampling of rhapsodic violin solos, here are the greatest examples of classical ... of Love’ is based on a charming ...

Classical music on ... musically—chamber and vocal music supplementing the better-known orchestral and piano works—with more than one account of several pieces. Ives’s thorny scores ...

By Joshua BaroneCorinna da Fonseca-WollheimZachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr The New York Times’s classical music and opera critics ... is a lot to take in over its nearly 50 minutes, but in ...

The rigid forms of classical ... popular as pieces of stand-alone orchestral music that evoked anything from a painting or poem to a feeling of nationalistic fervour. The Romantic era gave birth to ...