The audience at the Four Arts enjoyed an afternoon of exquisitely sophisticated music-making Sunday when the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet presented a program of Mozart, Haas, Ligeti, and Nielsen.

Members of the New York Philharmonic are on hand at the 92nd Street Y in New York to play a few of the Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet by Gyorgy Ligeti.

In an interview last week, GBH host Arun Rath asked Thomas Adès — the composer, conductor, and pianist often at the center of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s most involving projects — about the ...

Since the group's founding five years ago, the Arizona Graduate Winds has gained national recognition for its mastery of chamber music, and so it was a surprise when in August the group renamed itself ...

You may have heard of a "wind quintet," but what does that term really mean? Members of the UMKC Conservatory’s Plaza Winds quintet were recently in our studios to perform and shed some light for us ...

The otherworldly music of György Ligeti (1923-2006), may sound eclectic and esoteric, but it continues to resonate with performances around the world. Popularized by films like Stanley Kubrick’s “2001 ...

Music of recent decades took center stage in three Harris Hall concerts this week. Audience reactions were gratifyingly enthusiastic as Daniel Hope introduced Alan Fletcher’s 2017 Violin Concerto to ...

Mendelssohn starts his 200th birthday year particularly ripe for reappraisal. Yesterday, the British paper the Independent ran an article outlining the very real possibility that a document deposited ...

First, a confession. In the 1970s, I got familiar with a recording of avant-garde composer György Ligeti’s Adventures and New Adventures for a small group of instruments and “singers” but had to wait ...