Samuel Barber’s big hit among casual music lovers and even some dedicated aficionados is the luscious, emotional Adagio for Strings. But I sometimes wonder whether that’s only because the slow ...

Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set ...

Every now and then, a little wheeling and dealing goes into a new piece of music. That's especially true in the case of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, performed in concert here by James Ehnes at the ...

The 1945 Cello Concerto is probably the least performed of Samuel Barber's concertos – less winsomely melodic than the work for violin, less flamboyantly virtuosic than the Piano Concerto. But as ...

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Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The night starts off with Samuel Barber's ...

The violin concertos by William Walton and Samuel Barber are almost exactly contemporary – the Walton received its first performance in 1939, two years before the Barber – and they share not only a ...

The adaptable Keith Jarrett is on record questioning classical players’ concept of pulse. “Okay, there are a few exceptions,” he once said, “but everything is usually subordinated to phrasing.” In ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Giampaolo Nuti, Piano Samuel Barber, Composer RAI National Symphony Orchestra Daniel Kawka, Conductor Essay for Orchestra No. 1 Daniel Kawka, Conductor RAI National ...

Given the great success of the Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber could have been forgiven for resting on his musical laurels in the late 1930s. But the American composer was having none of it: he set ...