Volunteers handed out roses outside Symphony Hall before the concert, campaigning to keep conductor Andris Nelsons on the podium.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 is a masterpiece that begins with bell-like chords and eventually expands into a great, ...

The first sounds I heard after arriving at Philip Glass’ townhouse in Manhattan’s then-bohemian East Village to interview the composer in 1993 were extraordinary. Glass happened to be in his kitchen ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Kirill Gerstein, who has recorded a new account of the Second Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, discusses the composer’s polarizing legacy.

For some reason, when I listen to these two pieces, I think of love. And not just a love filled with happiness, but rather, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Inon Barnatan has created a solo transcription of “Symphonic Dances” in which he tries “not to imitate an orchestra, but to embody it.” By Joshua ...

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was born in Russia in 1873 and died in the United States in 1943. Composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, he was another of those gifts the great tyrants of ...

Sunday afternoon in Walt Disney Concert Hall, composer and pianist Nicholas Britell played a riff on Rachmaninoff as a surprise encore to his Los Angeles Philharmonic concert of film music. The crowd ...

Ahead of a BBC Four tribute to composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, a BBC music journalist explains why his music continues to enthral and seduce. I know how Marilyn Monroe feels. Or at least, the ...