As I was dashing out of the Chicago Symphony concert Thursday night at Orchestra Hall, I bumped into a friend who had also attended the event. With the horn fanfares of the Swedish composer Wilhelm ...

There's no better troll than a classical music orchestra troll. Last month, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra in Sweden received a piece of homophobic hate mail after the orchestra performed music by ...

The concert opens with Antonín Dvořák's rarely played work The Noon Witch, a Czech folk ballad included in the collection Kytice (Bouquet) by Karel Jaromír Erben. From the collection, Dvořák selected ...

In the international festival’s closing concert, Daniel Harding explored the light and shade of Mahler’s huge eighth symphony in an unforced and uplifting reading Mahler’s gargantuan Eighth Symphony ...

Once again, the Swedes are making their way to Wilmington. This time, they’re bringing their classical instruments. On Wednesday evening, Sweden’s Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra will perform at the ...

The world premiere of double concerto Distans by Sally Beamish, written for Jansen and Fröst, is interwoven with a string of works from Nordic musical history: Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt prelude, Jean ...

Play someone a recording of Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Second Symphony without any identifying information, and you’re likely to get a blank, bewildered stare. It’s not just that they won’t know the piece, ...

In May 1804, only a few days before Beethoven's third symphony was to debut in Vienna, Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself emperor. This was a blow to Beethoven, who, until that point, championed the ...

Two concerts celebrating Swedish history and culture are planned by the East Metro Symphony Orchestra. The concerts will be held in collaboration with the Twin Cities Swedish Folk Dancers and Twin ...

Erich Kleiber's interpretation of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis was the stuff of legend in the 1940s and 50s. He never made a commercial recording of the work, however, so the release of this live ...