By Barry Lenson Prepare to be surprised when you listen to the new 2-CD release of Eleonor Bindman playing her piano arrangements of Bach’s Cello Suites. Ms. Bindman’s arrangements faithfully include the notes you will find in the original Bach, but have become works...

Eric Coates, a composer who lived from 1886-1957, is usually characterized as “a composer of light English music.” Is that correct? Is that fair to him? We are not so sure. We think we would replace the adjective “light” with “happy,” “nostalgic” and “charming.” But...

The Scherzo from the Concerto Symphonique No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra by Henry Charles Litolff Henry Charles Litolff (1818-1891) was a well-regarded French pianist, composer, and music publisher in his day. Among his compositions are five Concertos Symphoniques for...

We've already written about Dan Brown's delightful new children's book Wild Symphony on this blog. We are writing about this book again today for two reasons. One is that since we last wrote about it a month ago, we have come to love it more and more. The second...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEzcFXRKHUw An out-of-this-world, exclusive playlist for members of Classical Archives Last week we published “Can E.T. Carry a Tune?”, a blog post by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute. It was a terrific post in...

by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute Music is said to be the common language of humanity. But is it something particular to our species or could extraterrestrial beings also have music? That may seem like a...