The Old Master
Neville Marriner breathed new life into Baroque music, with a sense of drive and panache
It Beggared All Description
The famous flop that opened the Met
The Sound of Silence
Jean Sibelius and the symphony that never was
Winter Classical Music
Ten pieces to warm your ears
Vermeer and the Art of Solitude
Some works are not meant to be blockbusters
Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
Sophisticated and never condescending
When the Angry Lion Roared
Pierre Boulez and the piece that marked his breakthrough as a composer
Great Escape
On Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece
Road Show
The woodblock prints of Utagawa Hiroshige
Boy Wonder
Remembering Lorin Maazel
