Every other June, music fans flock to the Boston Early Music Festival for a week-long extravaganza of some of the best historically informed performances of music anywhere in the world. Since its ...

Debussy · Rameau by Víkingur Ólafsson. Picture: Deutsche Grammophon Debussy and Rameau – Víkingur Ólafsson Deutsche Grammophon Following the success of his award-winning J.S. Bach album, Icelandic ...

He courted controversy during his own lifetime, but Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) changed the course of musical history, first as a theorist, and then as a composer of some of the most influential ...

Of all the 18th century masters, none is quite so unpredictable as Jean-Philippe Rameau. Without sounding weird or outrageous, his music operates by sly misdirection, constantly setting up ...

Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson had a recording career before signing with the German monolithe Deutsche Grammophon, having released three recordings for his own label, Dirrindí. In 2016, Ólafsson ...

The newsy part of the Houston Symphony's Mozart and More concert was Jean-Philippe Rameau. Rameau (1683-1764) was France's most important 18th-century composer. In the past few years, his music has ...

Joshua Kosman is the Chronicle’s former classical music critic. He retired in 2024, after covering classical music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1988, reviewing and reporting on the wealth of ...

Víkingur Ólafsson is the new superstar of the classical piano. His recent Bach album for Deutsche Grammophon won a string of awards, he directs two music festivals, he’s hosted his own TV show in his ...