An Alpine Symphony, by Richard Strauss, depicts a dawn to dusk climb up a mountain. We've rounded up two Alpine Symphony experts to be our trail guides up the mountain. Semyon Bychkov is conducting ...

We're in concert with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Igno Metzmacher to hear music by Richard Strauss. They play Strauss's tone poem Don Juan in concert in Amsterdam.

Cannons, fireworks, trumpets, and drums – with the whole orchestra to play with, classical music is the perfect accompaniment ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. Here's an evening's worth of very Viennese music from the Philadelphia Orchestra. The 20-year-old pianist Jan Lisiecki recently made his debut ...

Fans of the streaming service Google Play Music may soon want to hold a moment of silence. Google has announced that the app will be shut down and replaced by the YouTube Music app, which has been ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. “He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragic plays and tragic reality”, said the prophetic protagonist in ...

A NOSE for news can lead one into Philadelphia. Not so long ago there were reports that Richard Strauss’ “Feuersnot,” a one-act opera with a reputedly off-color text, was to be performed for the first ...

In Moliere's comedy, The Bourgeois Gentleman, the main character is utterly ridiculous: He tries just about anything to scratch his way into the noble upper class. Richard Strauss' music based on the ...