It should come as no surprise that classical-music critics are heavily into S&M. Scarlatti & Monteverdi. Schubert & Mozart. Strauss & Mahler. Stravinsky & Messiaen. What could all those ampersands ...

As Mozart's 250th birthday anniversary comes to a close, here's a note about one of Mozart's most mysterious pieces of music - his Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor. Classical music pundits have long ...

Disclaimer: This is an archived article dated before Saturday 1 January 2022. As such, images and embedded content may be missing. Do you like the odd piece of classical music, but you also feel like ...

In this delightful primer to classical music, composer and music scholar Swafford (The Vintage Guide to Classical Music) conducts us breathlessly on a tour of the highlights of the history of ...

Next to the accordion or bagpipes, no other instrument has been more brutalized than the viola. Multiple Web sites devoted to viola jokes can be found online - some of them require a parental advisory ...