The impulse to complete an unfinished work by a composer such as Schubert arises from a blend of artistic curiosity, historical empathy and creative challenge. For many musicians and scholars, an incomplete score feels like a fragment of a larger,

When cultural historians describe the development of eighteenth-century European arts, they often speak of the middle decades as a battleground between the elegance of the Rococo and the rising emotional force of Romanticism. Nowhere is this transitional turbulence more audible

As the weather draws in and our friends in northern countries report SNOW, we were looking for some good snow music. Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998) was born in Kursk, about 100 miles north of Ukraine, and after starting his musical studies

In our last article about Maurice Ravel (Read “Maurice Ravel at the Turn of the Century”), we left off shortly after the resolution of the affaire Ravel, the controversy surrounding Ravel’s exclusion by the judges of the Prix de Rome

In the last decade, violinist Bomsori Kim has achieved global recognition. Her rapid rise, propelled by a series of high-profile competition successes and a sequence of acclaimed recordings, has made her one of the most visible representatives of a new

Classical music lovers don’t always like acknowledging it, but every idolised canonical composer has been deeply inspired by the people who surrounded him. And in many cases, one of the most inspirational people in any artist’s life is their spouse.

On December 13, music lovers around the globe pause, take a deep breath, and celebrate the ethereal voice of one of the most expressive instruments ever created. You guessed it, we are talking about the violin. As we celebrate International