Hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies examine a hidden gem by Mozart contemporary Joseph Martin Kraus and Beethoven's fusion of different forms and genres, the 'Choral Fantasy,' featuring pianist ...

The four performances will take place Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 1:30 pm, at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark; Friday, March 14, 2025, at 8 pm, at Richardson Auditorium in ...

Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony, filled with dark-chocolate harmonies, has been seducing newcomers to classical music for a century. No wonder its melodies have also cropped up in movies and pop songs.

In this concert, Houston Civic Symphony will perform Tann's The Open Field: In memoriam Tiananmen Square and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27.

Rachmaninoff’s rapturous and romantic Symphony No. 2 unfurls a never-ending cascade of characteristically lush, opulent melodies, each one bound to speak directly to the heart. Principal Harp Megan ...

The Albany Symphony Orchestra’s concert Saturday night at the Palace Theatre was a mix of the rare and unusual with sublime romanticism for a memorable performance. But not at first. The concert began ...

That a second symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff even exists is fortunate. Following a scathing review of his First Symphony in 1897 he fell into such debilitating depression that he was unable to ...

The San Diego Symphony concluded its Jacobs Masterworks Series with a weekend of Rachmaninoff and Beethoven. I attended the Saturday, May 25 concert. This was the third time I’d heard the Rachmaninoff ...

Famed for his monstrously difficult but heart-achingly beautiful piano concertos, Sergei Rachmaninov’s music is rich, melodious and endlessly rewarding. From vast, sweeping piano concertos to luscious ...

This week’s series from the Jacksonville Symphony treated the city to the debut of a wholly new work inspired by the River City and the return of a fan favorite, Rachmaninoff’s monumental Second ...

Pianist John Novacek, who thrilled the Springfield Symphony Orchestra audience in 2016 with his performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, returns to Symphony Hall on Saturday, Oct. 5, for the ...