Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding) [Harmonia Mundi] – British conductor Daniel...
Classical Music and Opera
Review: LA Phil plays Brahms chamber music
When desert island music is mentioned to us mere mortals, we think of music we’d like to hear. But not so for the...
Pacific Opera Project starts 2019 with ‘The Magic Flute’
Pacific Opera Project opens its 2019 season with Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” as you’ve never seen it before — set in...
Review: LACO performs Tchaikovsky, Dohnányi and Contreras
A Russian in Italy, a Hungarian in Florida and a Mexican in California. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s latest...
‘The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin’ from Oxford University Press
Alexander Scriabin’s music was, arguably, the catalyst that set in motion Sergei Rachmaninoff’s career as a touring...
LACO Performs the Music of Juan Pablo Contreras
The popular notion which finds that Western classical music is so much “dead white men’s music” is a typical, if...
Review: Jacaranda Music performs Mahler
Admirers and detractors of Gustav Mahler can often agree at least on one thing: The man had a rare gift for effective...
Review: Dilijan Chamber Series Mansurian Birthday Concert
In a recent interview, Tigran Mansurian said he considered himself a musical “grandson” of Dmitri Shostakovich, the...
Sarah Gibson Premieres Composition With LACO
Peter Oundjian, formerly of the Tokyo String Quartet, has put his chamber music days behind him and has now taken up...