Even the orchestral tone poems of Richard Strauss, their scores larded with tantalizing verbal hints such as “Of the Great Longing” or “Song of the Night Wanderer,” tend to slip off the analyst’s hook ...

Four harps, a wind machine and a heckelphone feature on this little known score for an abandoned Nijinsky ballet. Ballet music is not something Richard Strauss is often remembered for, and Josephs ...

Manfred Honeck’s extended slice of Richard Strauss's Elektra was made in collaboration with the Czech composer Tomáš Ille, Honeck’s inspiration being performances he’d played in with Claudio Abbado ...

Though Richard Strauss later withdrew section titles that give a narrative to his autobiographical tone poem, “Ein Heldenleben” (“A Hero’s Life”), the epic nature of a hero at battle remains within ...

Brahms: Symphonies 1-4, Piano Concertos 1 and 2, Violin Concerto Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann with Maurizio Pollini (piano) and Lisa Batiashvili (violin) (DG) Another nicely packaged, ...

South African soprano Rangwanasha proved she is the real deal in a performance of Strauss’s Four Last Songs that’s let down by the RPO’s oddly pinched, poorly tuned backing ...

Beyond the challenging works themselves, the program proved notable in other respects. Theodore Thomas and the CSO gave the U.S. premieres of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben in 1900 as well as the ...

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin is an exciting weekday program that delves into a wide assortment of topics in classical music. Each weekly series builds off a single theme ranging from composer ...

I posed a deceptively simple question to our writers and editors, as well as some artists we admire: What are the five minutes or so — longer than a moment, shorter than a symphony — that you’d play ...

The music of Mozart and Strauss is able to lower blood lipid concentrations and the heart rate. This is the result of a study of the effect of different musical genres on the cardiovascular system.