Alan G. Artner

Norwegian lutenist and guitarist Rolf Lislevand evokes the early 17th Century style known as the "new music" to announce a break with historical performance practice. Where the goal of the...

In 1927, Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his modernist Second Symphony to mark the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, so on the 40th anniversary he memorialized an earlier event, the abortive...

In the last half of the 18th Century, Luigi Boccherini wrote nearly 500 orchestral and chamber works, only a small number of which have been recorded. The 200th anniversary of...

The last 20 years brought only one great recording of these works--by Patrick Bismuth on STIL--and that was on baroque violin. Now Gidon Kremer's second recording of the Sonatas (and...

Ingrid Perruche, soprano; Sinfonia Varsovia; Alain Altinoglu. conductor (Naive) Henryk Gorecki's Third Symphony, an unexpected hit of the 1990s, was in fact written 30 years ago and its first recording...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra closed its centennial celebrations in 1991 with a gala recreating its first program, conducted by the two living music directors, Georg Solti and Rafael Kubelik, and...

At the end of his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1963, Erich Leinsdorf observed the 10th anniversary of the death of Sergei Prokofiev by...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Leopold Stokowski made recordings for RCA Victor conducting an orchestra of handpicked musicians from the New York Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony and the...

With more than 50 available recordings of the revised four-movement version of Gustav Mahler's First Symphony, any newcomer had better be special, and this one is on several counts. A...

The Art Institute of Chicago has bought Salvador Dali's 1936 "Venus de Milo with Drawers," one of the rarest and most important sculptures in the artist's output and a key...