The most popular Glenn Gould performances on YouTube have drawn millions of views. Gould stopped performing live in 1964, retreating to the recording studio and the television camera, but his filmed performances have found an enormous new audience online. His

As part of the enormous ARTE “europiano” project for the 2026 Fête de la Musique, pianist Anna Vinnitskaya joins the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, in a performance of Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. The

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Over nearly thirty years, Beethoven wrote sixteen string quartets. Each one was unique, but they fall into three groups. The early quartets. The six quartets that make up Beethoven’s Op. 18 were written between 1798 and 1800. They are more

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A cadenza is one of classical music’s most thrilling traditions. It’s a moment near the end of a concerto movement where the orchestra falls silent, and the soloist plays alone. Originally, these passages were improvised on the spot, giving the

Two years after her triumph at the “La Maestra” conducting competition, Bar Avni returns to the podium at the Philharmonie de Paris. For today’s concert, she teams up with the Orchestre de Paris and Swedish violinist Ava Bahari, described by