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For generations after the invention of the instruments, the violin was widely considered to be a masculine instrument. Despite this, from the eighteenth century on, women have flocked to this instrument and succeeded at the highest levels. Today, we’re looking

An innovative program upcoming at the Hong Kong Philharmonic caught our interest. Conductor Robert Moody will be leading the Hong Kong Philharmonic in a program featuring the voice of Renée Fleming. The evening is centred on Fleming’s 2023 Grammy Award–winning

I’ve been diving into the piano music of Dmitri Shostakovich lately, and it’s like stumbling into a secret room full of contradictions. The music seems gritty, tender, sarcastic, and soulful all at once. Everything seems full of restless energy with

When you ask music lovers to name their favourite violin concertos, they’ll likely mention works by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, or Sibelius. But venture just a little bit further outside the established canon and you will find fascinating and deeply moving works

Charles Tournemire à Sainte-Clotilde Collection Odile Weber (Jean-Marc Leblanc, “Mémoires de Charles Tournemire: Édition critique,”L’Orgue. 2018 I–IV, nº 321–324, page 276) To Speak One’s Own Language The French organist Charles Tournemire (1870–1939) is one of the great enigmas in the

Ukrainian composer Alexey Shor (b. 1970) takes Giuseppe Verdi to South America! In his 2015 work, Verdiana, Shor took advantage of a tour of South America to recast familiar melodies from three operas by Giuseppe Verdi using three different South

In his notes to his new recording of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s (1840–1893) music, pianist Daniil Trifonov invites us to reconsider this seminal Russian composer. Instead of considering only his mature works (the symphonies, concertos, ballets, and operas) as the expression