“Cowardice is something that does endless damage to life.” That is from Rainer Maria Rilke, collected in Letters to a Young ...

1. Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht. Mahler: Symphony No. 1. Klaus Mäkelä/Royal Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra Love was in the ...

Petr Kotik’s Why Melody? was performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble and guest artists Wednesday night at the Paula Cooper Gallery.

The international group of soloists, all making their Philharmonic debuts, gave strong performances. Kieran White’s warm, ...

The scherzo-like third movement was marked Ballabile, “danceable” (sure, if you’re Baryshnikov), and the Kanneh-Masons ...

Brahms’s Fantasies, Op. 116, is actually another collection of intermezzos leavened with the fiery pieces the composer called ...

Tamino is the straight man against this, with the danger of seeming dull and square. But Portillo’s vibrant tenor, with the ...