When artists are famously temperamental, collaboration can be maddening - or magical. The San Francisco Symphony's concert on Thursday, Oct. 16 at Davies Symphony Hall, conducted by Jun Märkl and ...

When composers look for musical inspiration, the past has always been a pretty good place to start — whether to pay homage or reactively wriggle from tradition’s vice grip. The composers on this ...

Ravel's magical orchestration and subtle sensuality bring an aura of poetry to this pastoral drama. Jean Martinon guides the Chicago Symphony in... Pastoral Passion: Ravel's 'Daphnis and Chloe' ...

The sumptuous beauty of Daphnis et Chloe’s music, its bold rhythmic variety and stunning orchestration inspired Stravinsky to rightly declare it as ‘one of the most beautiful products of all French ...