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For many years, the Emerson Quartet have basked in lavish praise. But observing them in concert is an unsettling experience, thanks to a couple of gimmicks that might suit them in the recording studio, but work less well in the concert hall.

It is testament to the enduring fascination of Handel's Messiah that every epoch appropriates it as its own.

On Wednesday evening, the San Francisco Symphony gave the first in a series of three performances of instrumental works by J.S. Bach and his son, Johann Christian Bach, including three of Bach's Brandenburg Concerti.

IT was in a Korean subway, tired and penniless and being converged on by police officers, that David Juritz began to question his plan to busk his way around the world.

DOHA: Five young talented members of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra took the audience in a musical journey through the works of famous composers in different periods during a brass band concert at the Waqif Art Centre last night.

A few weeks back, there was an article posted here that speculated what kind of music Johann Sebastian Bach would have written if he had not believed in god.

Author Eric Siblin is shown in a handout photo. Siblin considered playing a different tune when he wrote the first words of his Governor General's Award-nominated first book, "The Cello Suites." THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Marcie Richstone MONTREAL - The same day he was passed over for a Governor General's Award, Eric Siblin won two Quebec Writers' ...

Eric Siblin considered playing a different tune when he wrote the first words of his Governor General's Award-nominated first book, "The Cello Suites." "I was actually thinking at first that it would be a murder mystery and that it would be fiction," Siblin said of the nominee in the non-fiction category.

Vienna Piotr Anderszewski Piotr Anderszewski, one of the world's foremost concert pianists and the subject of Bruno Monsaingeon's 2008 biopic Unquiet Traveller, plays a rare recital of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations at the Vienna Konzerthaus on Monday.

Submitted by Stacey Grimaldi, CONCORA, on 2009-11-11.   On Sunday, Nov. 22, 4 p.m. there will be a 35th Anniversary Concert & Reunion.

Chicago Choral Artists opens their 35th season by celebrating the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth with a concert, The Two Worlds of Mendelssohn, at the Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston on Friday, November 20th at 7:30 pm.

You may know that David Leonhardt has 38 years of professional experience with many of the top names in jazz from Benny Carter to Stan Getz.

What happens when a bluegrass banjo player makes a documentary film about a legendary 18th century composer? The result with Michael Lawrence is Bach and Friends , due for DVD release early in 2010.

WHAT would Malvern audiences have heard sung 400 years ago? There will be a unique opportunity to find out in Mark Padmorea s forthcoming concert for Malvern Concert Club.

TOO rare a visitor to these shores, this programme demonstrates just why the Mark Morris Dance Group has attracted accolades wherever it has appeared.

Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, review Alina Ibragimova Rating: * * * * * Alina Ibragimova HYPERION CDA67691/2, 2 CDS, 22.50 The young Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova has been a name to watch for some time, through her Hyperion recordings of music by Hartmann, Roslavets and Szymanowski, and through her participation in the BBC ...

The first recital of Chichester Chamber Concerts' fifth season was suitably dedicated to its original creator, Michael Nott, who sadly passed away earlier this year.

If you are new to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, as I am, may I humbly suggest you start with his Magnificat in D Minor, as performed by The Bach Choir of Bethlehem on their new CD.

Chichester Chamber Concerts open their 2009-2010 season with a concert in memory of their founder and chairman Michael Nott who died earlier this year.

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