Broadway musicians Danielle Giulini and Drew Griffin have paired up to perform the Handel/Halvorsen violin and viola duet, "Passacaglia." The two met on the Broadway national tour of Les Misérables ...

When Conductor Eugene Ormandy last week led the Philadelphia Orchestra through its final Manhattan performance of the season, listeners were pleasantly startled at Lucien Cailliet’s transcription of a ...

The Passacaglia: Lucie Skeaping traces the history and development of the dance-based form passacaglia, from its origins in Iberian street music to the great organ works by Bach. Show more Lucie ...

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Ronald Stevenson was one of the great composer-pianists ...

Jed Distler introduces a formidable pianistic edifice built on the opening of a Schubert symphony Leopold Godowsky composed his Passacaglia in 1927 to mark the following year’s centenary of Franz ...

Passacaglia was the last tonal work Webern wrote. Influenced by the death of his mother, you can hear the grief, anger and loss he was experiencing expressed in every note. Composer: Anton Webern ...

It’s hard to imagine Ronald Stevenson’s monumental piano work Passacaglia on DSCH has ever been played better With his performances and recordings of the Goldberg and Diabelli Variations, and of ...

Stevenson’s Passacaglia is one of those works which, like Ulysses, David Copperfield and À la recherche, I have never got round to. I have not heard Ogdon’s recording, nor Stevenson’s later version ...

We filmed Mari and Håkon Samuelsen playing Halvorsen's unique, completely ballistic spin on a Handel classic. Strap in, everyone... We caught up with the Samuelsen siblings backstage at the Bristol ...