Pardon my language but where the heck was everyone? It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich — didn’t mesh with ...

Ever since Beethoven ended his symphonic career with the Choral Symphony, the ninth symphony for any composer has been a watershed event, with composers such as Mahler and Bruckner either unable to ...

March 8 - The Russian economy may be in tatters and the former Soviet Union's embrace of democracy fraught with peril, but the reputation of post-Sovi et composers is soaring. Whether the recently ...

For the late Russian-German composer Alfred Schnittke, musical history was no nightmare to awaken from but a lovely dream that kept receding from his grasp the more he tried to recapture it. Like much ...

The dissonant oboe suspensions at the start of Bach's St John Passion have a sharp, potent sting here, compelling you to sit up and listen with unusual attentiveness. Released in time for Easter, ...

For their penultimate subscription program of the season (heard Thursday night in Segerstrom Concert Hall), Carl St.Clair and the Pacific Symphony put together an interesting and ambitious agenda that ...

How curious that Daniel Barenboim, who avoids conducting the music of Dmitri Shostakovich because he feels it wears its emotions too personally, and on both sleeves, should embrace the music of ...