For most Georgian concertgoers, the name Antonio Vivaldi evokes a familiar image: bright violin concertos, rhythmic sunshine, the endlessly recycled ...

East versus West. Turn on the nightly news, and you’ll be bombarded with it, the clash of cultures and civilisations that’s fuelled a billion narratives and seems to have existed since time began.

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...

A chance discovery introduced me to the composer’s work with abandoned children. The more I learned, the more I wondered about the creative role they played in his music Surprisingly, this story ...

Composer Max Richter has done a brave thing for any artist in any medium: He's messed with a classic, specifically, Vivaldi's four violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. He has a new album simply ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Academics, journalists and students packed a university hall today as musical history was made with the first performance for 2½ ...

Faithful followers of the Toronto Star Musical Moments will recognize TSO Violin Sergei Nikonov as a repeat contributor to this series. Nikonov shared a Musical Moment on Nov. 12, 2020 with a wistful ...