Dresden Staatskapelle, Rufolf Kempe, conductor (Berlin Classics). A CD with a measly 39-minute running time had better offer something pretty spectacular. Fortunately, this reissue of the great Rudolf ...

Music has always been at the forefront of Joseph Landers’ life. The composer, researcher and professor has earned a worldwide reputation while garnering “Distinguish Teacher” and “University Scholar” ...

Peter Pears, tenor; CBS Symphony Orchestra; Benjamin Britten, conductor and piano; New York Philharmonic; John Barbirolli, conductor (NMC). First performances invariably have special attractions, and ...

Halloween might be over, but the program that British composer and conductor Thomas Adès led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Thursday at Symphony Hall was still preoccupied with death and the ...

(The) Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Simon Rattle, Conductor For all his skill as an operatic composer and word-setter, Britten was not a natural symphonist. The two ...

Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem is a too-often neglected early statement of the pacifist convictions Britten would so express so monumentally at the latter end of his career in the War Requiem. Recently ...