For the past two weeks, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and music director Andris Nelsons have been warming up for their upcoming tour of Japan by giving Symphony Hall listeners a sneak preview of the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Christian Thielemann led the storied orchestra in three concerts at Carnegie Hall, including a revelatory performance of Strauss’s ...

The Austrian composer’s Concerto Grosso No 1 and Strauss’s Alpine Symphony were nimbly scaled by the BBC Scottish Georg Friedrich Haas may be one of the leading composers of today, widely performed ...

Minnesota Orchestra; Edo de Waart, conductor; recorded on April 5, 6 & 7, 1989 at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Virgin Classics VC 7 91102-2 260 422-231 (compact disc); VC 7 91102-4 ...

Heckelphone, organ, thunder machine, and other orchestral effects make for a thrilling Alpine adventure, thanks to tour guide Richard Strauss, who translates these timbres into chirping birds, ...

Noted conductor John Axelrod and prodigy turned top violinist Simone Lamsma will be performing together at the LG Arts Center in Gangnam, southern Seoul, Thursday. "Eine Alpensinfonie" (Alpine ...

“The Alpine Symphony” doesn’t come around very often. One reason is scale. Richard Strauss’ monumental tone poem requires an extravagant orchestra of 150. Another reason is taste. A spectacular ...

Sir Andrew Davis, the MSO's chief conductor, is back in town and raring to go. First on his agenda is this lengthy program, notable for a splendid British classic and a white-hot reading of ...