Alan G. Artner

This is the penultimate installment of Pierre Boulez's Mahler symphony cycle--only the Eighth remains to be issued--and the most recent single-disc version, clocking in at more than two minutes faster...

William Walton's First Symphony is a fierce, large-scale masterpiece from the mid-1930s, a particularly anguished time for the composer. It gave him much trouble and was premiered unfinished. The first...

Jane Marsh, soprano; Eunice Alberts, contralto; Richard Cassily, tenor; Thomas Paul, bass; Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, New England Conservatory Chorus. Erich Leinsdorf, conductor (VAI DVD) After excellent discs...

This is Leopold Stokowski's third, and last, recording of Tchaikovsky's tone poem on Dante's doomed lovers and his first complete recording of the "Serenade," both made in 1974 when he...

"Folia" is a word of Portugese origin that late in the 15th Century referred to a noisy traditional peasant dance. The "mad" or "empty-headed" music that accompanied it took on...

The star here is the 25-year old Luxembourg pianist who appears on the cover of the disc booklet looking like a member of the cast of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."...

By the numbers Inception of project: 01.1999. Artist: Anish Kapoor, an internationally known native of Bombay living in London. Work: "Cloud Gate," the artist's first permanent public art in the...

A Jeff Koons sculpture, "Woman in Tub," has become the first work by the controversial artist to enter the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The porcelain sculpture is...

John Tavener wrote his "Lament for Jerusalem" in 2002, later preparing this scaled-down version for the present forces, who presented it in Jerusalem and the West Bank two years ago....

The great Russian violin virtuoso David Oistrakh was in his early sixties when he played his first all-Mozart recital, and the unlikely partner he chose was Paul Badura-Skoda, an Austrian...