Dmitri Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, one of the mainstays of the twentieth-century orchestral repertory, ends with an unapologetic display of musical bombast. The coda consists of thirty-five ...

Young composer Estella Wallace talks about her prize-winning piece for string quartet inspired by Shostakovich's final work.

The Cleveland Orchestra Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Víkingur Ólafsson, piano Franz Welser-Möst returns to Blossom with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, which journeys from dark inner turmoil to an ...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is quite simply the most famous piece of classical music ever written. The opening four notes, commonly referred to as “fate knocking at the door,” are easily recognizable ...

"The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything," composer Gustav Mahler once said. Mahler's Fifth Symphony will be highlighted at this weekend's Brown University Orchestra concert ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

A well-known and loved Symphony Orchestra is set to tour South Cumbria later this month in an innovative performance of a Beethoven classic.

Gerard Schwarz is back, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra is entrusting him with four of the biggest notes in musical history. Hartford Symphony audiences got a taste of Schwarz’s musical mindset ...