Through his work with the innovative string quartet Brooklyn Rider and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, violinist Johnny Gandelsman has established himself as a performer of wide-ranging interests and ...

Flutist Courtney Westcott and keyboardist Byron Schenkman play the second movement from a sonata by J.C. Bach. It's from one of our newest CD recordings.

This week's From the Top, hosted by pianist Peter Dugan, celebrates the various ways music has created community in the lives of the featured young artists. The episode features a strong number of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Former boy-wizard Chris Thile has lent his mandolin virtuosity to Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers, and now looks back ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...

It might seem odd for Bach's solo violin music to be transcribed for mandolin. But it's an instrument that Beethoven, Mahler, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Boulez and Ligeti have all written for, and there ...

After years of silence following an injury it seemed Kyung Wha Chung had retired. Then came a return to live recitals (her Royal Festival Hall appearance sparked headlines when she berated a noisy ...