We'll hear a fine performance from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, led by Matthias Bamert (mah-TEE-ahs BAM-ert). It's the Symphony in C, by the 17-year-old Georges Bizet (zhorzh bee-ZAY). It's ...

Nevertheless there is none of the melodic genius of Bizet's well-loved Symphony in C, preceding the two candidates. One was created as an exercise rather than a competition entry, and reassembled for ...

Thomas Adès’ Three Studies from Couperin opens this program which will also feature DCS concertmaster Kazuhiro Takagi on Saint Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3. After intermission the orchestra performs ...

The Classical Tahoe Orchestra performs Selections from Carmen by Georges Bizet, Symphony No. 1 in C Major by Georges Bizet, Sinfonietta No. 2 (“Generations”) by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and Violin ...

Bizet’s only symphony was composed in 1855 as a school exercise. The 17-year-old composer promptly forgot about the piece, and the manuscript was spotted in the archives of the Paris Consevatoire some ...

The conductor Ernest Ansermet held a grudge against atonal music, saying it went against the "true path" of tonality. In this performance, the Suisse Romande Orchestra plays a tune catchy enough to ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...