On the outskirts of Lucerne is the beautiful little jewel box of a house where Richard Wagner lived in the suburb of Tribschen. Wagner and his wife Cosima lived there from 1866 to 1872. Forced to leave Munich because of

After many years of listening to second-rate orchestras, the joy of hearing one of the world’s finest orchestras live cannot be understated. No 10-minute noise-fest before the concert as the various players give those hard passages one more try in

Do you feel like you’ve encountered too many classical music programs that seem like the “greatest hits?” Or those that comprise the “same ole same ole” trendy works with a dose of contemporary commissions without regard for how the works

Anne-Sophie Mutter and her long-time partners, the Berliner Barock Solisten, brought an unmistakably individualistic, “Mutter-stamped” program to the Elbphilharmonie. Juxtaposing Mozart‘s classical poise with contemporary works by André Previn and Aftab Darvishi, the evening promised an engaging dialogue between past

In 1875, the English lawyer Arthur Duke Coleridge, an amateur musician with influential connections, spent some time in Leipzig studying music alongside the young Charles Villiers Stanford. He became acquainted with Bach‘s B-minor Mass, a work that had received its

Since April, a special exhibition on Frédéric Chopin—traveling all the way from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw—has been on view at the Suzhou Museum. Through 57 exhibits, it offers a glimpse into the life and legacy of this legendary

Last week, Yunchan Lim appeared in Hong Kong with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under the baton of Wilson Ng, bringing us his own take of the piano concerto in A minor by Robert Schumann. I sat

Founded in 2017 as a cultural initiative to bridge East and West through music, the Youth Music Culture the Greater Bay Area (YMCG) brings together young professional musicians between the ages of 18 and 30 for 15 days of music-making.