What is technical perfection if you don't have anything meaningful to say? It was something Pyotr Tchaikovsky mused about in 1888 when setting to work on what would become his famed Symphony No 5.

Luisi must have been right on Beethoven’s markings for the Fifth’s first two movements — the first edgy, bristling with ...

The maestro has appeared more frail since 2022, canceling scheduled performances that included a new production of Wagner's ...

After a three-month absence, the Sedona Symphony returned to the Sedona Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Feb. 2, with its ...

Conductor Daniel Barenboim says he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The 82-year-old issued a statement Thursday ...

Argentine-born conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, KBE, confirmed that he has Parkinson's Disease but nevertheless intends to “maintain as many musical engagements as possible.” The 82 ...

Barenboim has been chief conductor of the Orchestre de Paris (1975–89) and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1991–2006) and Milan’s Teatro alla Scala (2011–14) and general ...

In 2024 Batiste released an album of music by Beethoven with blues inflections ... Much of the Netflix documentary American Symphony focuses on the resurgence of her cancer through the lens of her ...

the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Since the 1980s, Barenboim has also been an outspoken political figure as much as a revered musical one – a rarity for a conductor.