Authentic Sound  is a delightful channel run by Belgian musician Wim Winters. Besides his marvelous playing he discusses musicology, history...

Vienna, 1802. Ludwig van Beethoven takes a stroll through in country outside the city. The birds are singing as a soft, wispy cloud moment...

Moral philosophers are eager to suggest every which way we might become good people, but they seldom seem to get around to telling you what...

Holy  is one of my least favorite words in our beloved English tongue. To start, the word has an undignified ring, for both wholly and holy...

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. The Monteverdi Choir. Conducted by  Sir John Eliot Gardiner.  Carnegie Hall. November 17, 2012. ...

I assembled the following to be a pleasing and perhaps instructive journey through music history and because we all know people who refer t...

In which we get unusually pop-culturey in order to shed a little human light on this musical Olympian (and to have a little laugh.) ...

In our first look at sacred music last month we discussed some concrete principals and why they functioned as the essence of good sacred m...

The shade of Bach over Beethoven's gentle fughetta infuses a pathos to the sublime andante dance through time. (Compare to the simila...

– Schubert . Schwanengesang - Ständchen (Rellstab) [ German & English Text via lieder.net ] – Mozart . Das Veilchen, KV.476 (Goeth...

From the Unanswered Questions Norton series of talks at Harvard, given in 1973. The series, happily, is available in paperback and on DVD...

Pianist András Schiff on Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8  in C minor, op. 13. Listen to more of this series here Part I | Part II | P...

Last year in celebration of Thanksgiving I indulged in compiling list. I say indulged because I included no explanation or explication, un...

In a wonderful pre-concert lecture Thomas Crawford, Music Director and Founder of the American Classical Orchestra discusses the music and ...

One of the most common criticisms of the left by the right is that the left is collectivist whereas the right is individualist. One of the m...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner thinks there is something French about Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Did Beethoven use French tunes written during ...

Directed by Bernard Rose. 1994. In the DVD commentary track to Immortal Beloved director Bernard Rose suggested the conundrum of the immor...