This is FRESH AIR. Can a piece of music be too big for its own good? That's a question our classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz has been asking himself. He doesn't particularly like grandiosity for ...

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CLEVELAND -- If this is how the Cleveland Orchestra makes up for being gone two weeks, maybe it ought to travel more. Indeed, the concert it gave Thursday night at Severance Hall, its first in ...

This weekend, acclaimed American pianist Garrick Ohlsson joins the National Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Rossen Milanov making his NSO debut, at the Kennedy Center for three performances of ...

After he published his musical manifesto Towards a New Aesthetic of Composition in 1908, Busoni rejected a lot of his earlier works, but the 1897 Violin Concerto and the Second Violin Sonata, composed ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2017 performance of Ferruccio Busoni's monumental concerto met all the composer's impossible demands. A new live recording of the event is both serious and fabulous.